COVID, we usually refer to respiratory diseases. But recent studies have shown the virus can affect us in more ways than what we already know.
Coronavirus can affect every organ of your body causing serious health issues like heart attack and stroke. Read here to understand how the virus is affecting your heart health, how severe it can be and also what are the common symptoms.
When the viral load is more, the patients can develop serious infections, including pneumonia. In such cases, the airways to the heart get blocked, and can turn fatal.
Also, the virus can enter the heart and infect the inner lining of the heart leading to a heart attack. The syndrome is called myocarditis.