There is Nothing Puzzling About This

I don't know why they headlined the story, "Covid Made Heart Disease Deadlier, Puzzling Scientists," when there is no reason for it to be a puzzle.

It has been known since the virus was first observed that Covid-19 attacks epithelial cells, particularly those in the lungs and lining the blood vessels.

It works a lot like smoking, and much like smoking, it gives you lung problems and circulatory system programs.

It would be nice if Bloomberg's reporters had a clue:

Almost three weeks before Covid-19 was reported to be spreading in the US, Patricia Cabello Dowd dropped dead in the kitchen of her San Jose, California, home. A previously healthy 57-year-old, Dowd had complained of body aches and flu-like symptoms days earlier, but nothing could explain why she died so suddenly.

Lab results 10 weeks later revealed Dowd, a manager at a Silicon Valley semiconductor firm, was one of the first US Covid fatalities. Inflammation of the heart muscle led to a finger-sized rupture which caused lethal hemorrhage, an autopsy report showed.

Her death portended an alarming pattern: Not only did the pandemic result in the most deaths in a century, but it also triggered a wave of deadly cardiovascular and metabolic illness. While cases like Dowd’s were known from the start, mortality data of the last four years are now revealing the scale of the impact. 

This is not a surprise.  We had amputations due to circulatory system failures early in the epidemic.

We had unexplained pulmonary embolisms, strokes, etc. very early in the pandemic, but this reporter takes the comments from the doctor that they interviewed that, "It’s unclear how many people died from Covid’s cardiovascular complications and how many died because of its indirect consequences, such as disrupted medical care and worsening rates of obesity and high blood pressure," as serious scientific statements.

They are not.  They are an evasion of scientific fact, because these doctors don't want to be in the crosshairs of the "Covid is over," crowd.

Learn to call bullsh%$ when you see it.