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Peter Baddoo, an MIT instructor in the Department of Mathematics, passed away suddenly on Feb. 15 while playing basketball on campus.

Baddoo joined the MIT Department of Mathematics in January 2021. 1/

#diedsuddenly
#COVIDKills
#LongCovid

COVID is overwhelmingly shown to be the underlying cause behind sudden deaths and the excess deaths.

Coronaviruses have a history of causing vascular dysfunction and blood clotting that could lead to heart attacks and strokes. 2/

“Coagulation disorders in coronavirus infected patients: COVID-19, SARS-CoV-1, MERS-CoV and lessons from the past” 3/

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A scholar and teacher but Baddoo also brought the department together by organizing social events for postdocs and instructors; for these and other efforts, he received a Math Community Service Award.

These events may have also cost him his life. 4/

heart.bmj.com/content/109/2/…

COVID has a history of causing vascular dysfunction, blood clotting, and strokes prior to vaccines.

Studies from 2020 demonstrate how COVID affects the vascular system before anyone takes the vaccines. 5/

1.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.11…

2.hindawi.com/journals/cdtp/…

Mount Sinai in New York drew on medical records from over 1.9 million patients who were infected with COVID between 3/2020 and 2/2022. A "major adverse cardiac event," namely a heart attack, stroke, was identified in 13,948 patients, and 3,175 died following the event. 6/

The researchers found that being fully vaccinated reduced the risk of having a major cardiac event by about 41 percent, while being partially vaccinated reduced the risk by about 24 percent.

The median time of the event was 17 days after the start of a COVID infection. 7/

Impact of Vaccination on Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients With COVID-19 Infection.

COVID was the #4 cause of death of 15 - 35 yr old's in 2021. The #2 cause of death of 35- 45 yr old's, and the #1 cause of death of 45 to 55 year old's.
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jacc.org/doi/full/10.10…

Persistent infections increase the odds of inflammation that lead to autoimmune disorders & vascular dysfunction that lead to heart attacks & strokes.

"We were able to detect the virus in the oesophagus, large intestine, kidney, placenta, lung, & brain."
assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-14418…

“Tonsils and adenoids are important sites of SARS-CoV-2 infection in asymptomatic children.”

A 55% increase in the likelihood of reporting Long COVID more than 12 weeks after infection if they had persistent infections.
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medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Some people with persistent infections were likely spreading the disease. This suggests that if a parent, teacher, or child has a persistent infection, they could be contagious continuously or intermittently for many weeks or months.

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Autoimmune disorders and vascular dysfunction are often caused by a persistent infection, resulting in an ongoing inflammatory response.

COVID was associated with an increased risk of being newly diagnosed with an autoimmune disease 3-15 months after an infection. 12/

“The strength of the association with SARS-CoV-2 infection was most pronounced for autoimmune diseases in the vasculitis group.”

Vasculitis: inflammation of blood vessels that can cause the walls of the blood vessels to thicken, which reduces the width.
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Increases in heart attack mortality have coincided with increases in COVID infection, even during the pandemic's assumed milder Omicron phase.

The increase was highest in people between the ages of 25 and 44, who are not usually thought to be at high risk for a heart attack.

The most vaccinated older adults had a smaller increase than younger adults due to acute myocardial infarction.

The 25–44 age group is more likely to be re-infected by COVID through their jobs and by their school-age children.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jm…

COVID is the principal cause of the sudden deaths and excess mortality among younger and middle-aged adults.

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COVID Accelerated Aging

How many years of life are we losing from COVID infections?

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