>But as others have said, if you only use the ventilator for the very sickest people, then the more pressed you are the fewer survivors you'll get because peopl

>But as others have said, if you only use the ventilator for the very sickest people, then the more pressed you are the fewer survivors you'll get because people who have a chance without it will be kept off the ventilator if at all possible. My very limited understanding is that ventilation has major issues around bacterial infection. This is why everybody is locking down so you don't have to make a choice between those that will benefit the most from ventilation and those that have little hope left. For most socialized healthcare systems once a resource is in sort supply guidelines for selecting those that will benefit the most are established. So at the end of the day the 80 y.o won't receive the ventilator but the 50 y.o. will( at least that's how it works here).