New York City officially earned the grim distinction of becoming the nation's coronavirus epicenter on March 20, but city records analyzed by ABC News suggest a crisis swelling far earlier.
Antibody testing can determine if a person’s blood shows signs of COVID-19 exposure.New York City officially earned the grim distinction of becoming the nation'sepicenter on March 20, but city records analyzed by ABC News suggest a crisis swelling far earlier, signaled by a sudden uptick in cardiac arrest cases that experts now say were likely linked to the virus.
For nearly three weeks, she said, calls escalated exponentially, particularly cardiac arrest emergencies. "The most devastating" complication is"when the virus goes in and affects the heart cells directly and kills them," Dr. Varinder Singh, Chief of Cardiology at Lenox Hill Hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side, said.
Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center medical staff stand outside of the emergency room bay, April 9, 2020 in New York City.He said that the inflammatory response from the virus is so severe to the heart that there were reports of"seeing what looked like a classic heart attack." A majority of heart attacks are associated with clogged arteries, but Singh's team was surprised to find that in these patients"their arteries were actually normal."Dr.
Medics and hospital workers prepare to lift a patient onto a hospital stretcher outside the Montefiore Medical Center Moses Campus, on April 7, 2020, in the Bronx borough of New York City.
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