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Ventilator use is similar to major surgery. It appears 66% to 90% of corona patients who are put on a ventilator will die. https://www.npr.org/sections/health

Ventilator use is similar to major surgery. It appears 66% to 90% of corona patients who are put on a ventilator will die. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/02/826105278/ventilators-are-no-panacea-for-critically-ill-covid-19-patients https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/02/8261052... So the whole "flatten the curve" thing is less useful than advertised.

ksec 7y ago
>It appears 66% to 90% of corona patients who are put on a ventilator will die. Is there a Data Source for this?
- rasz 7y ago
  Italy Cremona https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfkbv_WQtn0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfkbv_WQtn0 Italy Bergamo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_suhYeWEcJg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_suhYeWEcJg Two hospitals, not a single patient survived ventilation/ecmo to date (two weeks ago).
garblegarble 7y ago
>So the whole "flatten the curve" thing is less useful than advertised. Although even if that percentage is right, flattening the curve is still important because if hospitals are slammed with Covid patients in various states of urgency then you're likely going to be failing to save a lot of patients with other ailments. Also you're saving the mental health of hospital workers who will be massively overworked and then be forced to endlessly be unable to do anything for patients and have to let people die rather than try to give them a chance with a ventilator.
smacktoward 7y ago
10% to 34% chance of survival is still a long chalk better than 0% chance of survival, which is what serious COVID cases would have if no ventilators were available.