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Hi everyone, this is John Mandrola from the Heart.org Medscape Cardiology and this is this week in

cardiology for July 31st, 2020.

This week COVID, cardiac effects of COVID, AF ablation safety, SGLT2 inhibition, and a brief

announcement. First our brief COVID update. Yesterday we had 4.6 million cases in the US.

US deaths a week ago were 147,000 and this week are 155,000. The rate of rise now is 1.05 x, which is slightly up

from last week at 1.04 x. Now some super quick thoughts on COVID. I went over to the Johns Hopkins site

and looked, Florida, California, Texas have all seen spikes in cases, but it's now four weeks on from the

spike and there is very little change in death rates there. Very little.

Also, from that same data set, I looked at the cases from the four surging states here in the

U.S. Florida, Arizona, Texas, California, and then looked over at death per 1 million.

Arizona was highest at 500 deaths per million.

But here's the thing.

New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts all had deaths per million

at well over 1,000. New Jersey at nearly 1,000. all had

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