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Heart Disease And COVID-19: Higher Risk Requires Extra Precaution Heart Disease And COVID-19: Higher Risk Requires Extra Precaution
Heart Disease And Covid-19: Higher Risk Requires Extra Precaution If you have a pre-existing heart disease and become ill with COVID-19, you are at a higher risk for a heart attack or developing congestive heart failure. This is likely due to a combination of the severity of the viral illness and its increased demands on the heart (fever causes rapid heart rate, for example), compounded by low oxygen levels and an increased likelihood for blood clot formation. In addition to the increase in these heart problems, a more unusual condition called myocarditis where the virus infects the heart muscle directly, has also been observed in COVID-19 patients. If you…

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Teen Duo Charged In Northern Westchester Pharmacy Burglary Teen Duo Charged In Northern Westchester Pharmacy Burglary
Teen Duo Charged In Northern Westchester Pharmacy Burglary Two teenagers are facing charges for an alleged burglary of a Westchester pharmacy, police said. Mount Kisco residents Kevin Alvarez-Soto and Hugo Lopez-Ramos, both 19, have been arrested and charged for their roles in the burglary in a village pharmacy, police said.  When they were arrested last month, a “sizable amount of prescription medication” was seized by investigators. According to police, shortly after 10 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 16, the Westchester County Police Department received a report that Robert Jacobson Surgical Pharmacy on Main Street in Mount Kisco may have been broke…

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by Zak Failla