After N.B.’s deadliest year, COVID-related strokes and heart attacks are in the spotlight – CBC

An estimated 9,288 people died in NB in 2022, a 14.5 per cent increase over 2021

May 18, 2023

Haley Jones is 32 and struggling with cardiac problems that developed after she came down with COVID-19 last December.

“My heart rate was going up as high as 200.  I was very short of breath. I couldn’t walk and talk at the same time,” said the stay-at-home mother of three from her home in Oromocto, N.B.

Jones has been to the emergency room twice with heart trouble since her COVID infection and was eventually diagnosed with supraventricular tachycardias. It’s an “irregularly fast or erratic heartbeat that affects the heart’s upper chambers,” according to an online explanation by the Mayo Clinic.

Jones is on medicine to slow her heart rate and she is wait-listed for an appointment at the New Brunswick Heart Centre for a procedure to restore her heart’s normal rhythm.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/record-covid-deaths-heart-stroke-1.6847211