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Hi everyone, this is John Mandrula from the Heart Notorg Medscape Cardiology, and this is this week in

Cardiology for September 18th, 2020.

This week, COVID, CMR after COVID, a revision of the

ischemia trial, low-risk patients

would valular heart disease.

First, a note on COVID.

Yes, it is still bad, Deaths per day here in the US are around a thousand per day.

Good news is the Oxford vaccine is back on.

Now one quick comment. People are struggling. American society is

struggling. I see a number of patients who want procedures done soon because they lost their job and

insurance is running out. More and more I see patients who are having

arrhythmia flare-ups and they believe it is due to stress. Now I ask these patients, is stress from the pandemic?

It's sort of, but many of them it's from the civil and political unrest. Now if you're

retired or out of work or have time, you have more time to watch the news

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