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The numbers from Wuhan were something like 30% fatalities for those moved to ventilation. That doesn't detract from your point but does support why the path "ma

• onetimemanytime 7y ago
  Technically I should provide a citation and searched, but couldn't find it. I'm almost certain that I've read that wayyy more than 50% (prob 70% die) once placed on ventilator. Maybe because those ending there are already with one foot+ on the grave. The ventilator can save,say 30%, and also make us feel good "we did all we could," after all, we will all reach that point one day ;)
  • hiram112 7y ago
    There is a small study / report released with 32 patients in Wuhan who were put on ventilators. 31 died. I have not been able to find any larger case reports. Though on Tucker Carlson a few nights ago, a doctor on the front lines in NYC was interviewed and gave a similar report: If you reach the point of intubation and ventilation, the chances of survival is quite low. A lot of these stats now coming out are going to be harder and harder to interpret going forward, regardless of the true numbers, as the media twists things around for their own political purposes. If ventilators turn out to be not the difference between life and death, even according to the raw stats, the media who wants to use lack of ventilators to blame one political party or another for the incompetency, isn't likely to tell the truth anyway.
  • barry-cotter 7y ago
    Most people who get put on a ventilator die under the best of circumstances.