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My partner has been treating COVID patients. The numbers she's seeing for COVID patients on ventilators surviving are better, but not by much.
by wl 7y ago
My partner has been treating COVID patients. The numbers she's seeing for COVID patients on ventilators surviving are better, but not by much.
- mikeyouse 7y agoLikewise. In SF at the moment, they're having pretty good outcomes but that's due to half-full ICUs and dedicated care. I could see how bad things would get if they were to be overwhelmed though.
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- KMag 7y agoAs I'm sure you and she are aware, the gut-feel regression has a very poor historical track record at separating confounding variables, particularly outside of controlled studies. The decision to vent or not is being made by an expert physician, taking many variables into account, so it's very difficult to tease out a meaningful conclusion just by comparing the two survival rates.