Day 661: Diseases of Heart

This past summer, a quant named Austin G. Walters blogged about the slow revision of weekly CDC deaths from an undetermined cause of death (often pending COVID test results) to "diseases of heart":

At this point, we will still have another three to four weeks to identify exactly what is going on here. January 2021 appears to have a seasonal increase due to COVID-19, correlating with a rise in all causes of death. The question, is whether or not the increase in diseases of heart continues to be high.

Currently, fatalities related to diseases of heart are running one to three thousand higher than in the summer and early fall of 2020. If the deaths associated with ICD10 R00-R99 [undetermined] continue to be changed to diseases of heart (seems likely, given the decreasing COVID19 cases) that would be somewhat alarming.

Unfortunately he stopped COVID-blogging soon after and never updated with the next month of data.

On a similar topic, an abstract of Mrna COVID Vaccines Dramatically Increase Endothelial Inflammatory Markers and ACS Risk as Measured by the PULS Cardiac Test: a Warning claims that mRNA vaccines increased the likelihood of acute coronary events in the next 5 years from 11% to 25% among their patient group.