There are many heart attacks and injuries that snow shoveling causes every year. Officials are warning you this year that COVID-19 may have caused your injury.
According to Dr. Steven Reisman, long haulers syndrome sufferers are more at risk from injury when shoveling is done.
“People recovering from COVID — it is dangerous for them to be out shoveling snow. In particular if they’ve gained weight, they’re obese, they have respiratory issues secondary to COVID, and they’ve really had an increase in their inactivity, leading to more risk of heart disease,”Reisman spoke.
He also stated that shoveling requires caution.
“If you have to go out and you have a history of COVID, just make sure your lungs have good capacity and you don’t have risk factors of heart disease. And then do it very slowly and make sure you warm up intermittently,”Reisman spoke.
It was a day to clean up the Eastern U.S.A., made more difficult due to spiraling COVID-19 instances.
New York City sanitation workers can be found out sick up to 25%.
One motorist discovered that the same problem is occurring in Kentucky.
“This is the day that COVID crippled Louisville with a 1-inch snow. Supposedly, 14% of our road crews are out sick with COVID,”The driver replied.
Due to snow shoveling-related injury, close to 12,000,000.00 people are admitted to emergency rooms each year.