Here's a report that survival rates for patients on vents is actually quite a bit better than some of the earlier reports out of New York:
>>>COVID-19 has given ventilators an undeservedly bad reputation, says
Dr. Colin Cooke, an associate professor of medicine in the division of pulmonary and critical care at the University of Michigan.
"It's always disheartening to know that some people are out there saying if you end up on a ventilator it's a death sentence, which is not what we are experiencing — and I don't think it's what the data are showing," Cooke says.
Early
reports from China, the United Kingdom and Seattle found mortality rates as high as 90% among patients on ventilators. And more recently, a
study of some New York hospitals seemed to show a mortality rate of 88%.
But Cooke and others say the New York figure was misleading because the analysis included only patients who had either died or been discharged. "So folks who were actually in the midst of fighting their illness were not being included in the statistic of patients who were still alive," he says.
Those patients made up more than half of all the people in the study.<<<
Early reports found death rates as high as 90% among COVID-19 patients on ventilators. But some hospitals are now reporting mortality lower than 30%.
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