New @GladstoneInst findings in both iPSC-> heart cells & autopsy indicate it's a heart virus, w/ a distinct pattern:
—myofibrillar fragmentation
—loss of nuclear DNA
—"complete dissolution of the contractile machinery"
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gladstone.org/news/new-insig…
This doesn't require intracellular infection for the toxic effects. Interruption of specific transcription speculated, cleavage of A-band 2/
For example, we know from 4 series of lung CT scans in people with asymptomatic infections that 50% have abnormalities consistent w/ covid.
But no such studies reported on the heart