Heart Damage in COVID Patients Puzzles Doctors

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April 06, 2020

Dear Reader, The focus of the coronavirus pandemic has largely been on respiratory distress and lung damage, but doctors are also trying to understand why many COVID-19 patients are developing heart problems—and dying of cardiac arrest. Is their heart being affected by the virus? Today's main story examines the question. In another piece, health and medicine editor Tanya Lewis interviews an expert on pandemic preparedness. They discuss some of the most important criteria the U.S. must meet before lifting restrictions. And in space news, astronomers are missing one of our solar system's most extraordinary events due to the global shutdown. Important information for our print subscribers

Sunya Bhutta, Senior Editor, Audience Engagement @sunyaaa

Public Health Heart Damage in COVID Patients Puzzles Doctors Up to 1 in 5 infected patients have signs of heart injury. Cardiologists are trying to learn whether the virus attacks the organ By Markian Hawryluk,Kaiser Health News

Public Health When Can We Lift the Coronavirus Pandemic Restrictions? Not Before Taking These Steps Johns Hopkins health security expert Tom Inglesby discusses the need for widespread testing, protective equipment and face coverings By Tanya Lewis

Space COVID-19 Shutdown May Obscure Mysteries of Cracked Interstellar Comet Pristine alien material from the object 2I/Borisov is being exposed to space for the first time—but the coronavirus pandemic is stopping astronomers from watching it By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Environment 5 Ways the Economic Upheaval of Coronavirus May Impact CO2 Emissions When Americans return to the roads, what happens to oil prices and China's recovery strategy could all impact emissions levels By Benjamin Storrow,E&E News

Public Health Can We Really Develop a Safe, Effective Coronavirus Vaccine? We don't know for sure, but if we can, it probably won't be easy, cheap or fast By William A. Haseltine

Public Health Inside the Global Race to Fight COVID-19 Using the World's Fastest Supercomputers The director of IBM Research explains how the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium came together in just a few days By Dario Gil

FROM THE STORE Ask the Experts: Astronomy This second eBook in our Ask the Experts series – Astronomy – looks skyward and explains a variety of universal phenomena and theories. Questions on stars, planets, asteroids, galaxies, black holes, space exploration and more are answered in this collection.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY "This is an unprecedented epidemic, and we should be leaning toward doing things even if we're unsure of their full benefit." Tom Inglesby, Director of the Center for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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