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> Patients on ventilators have a reported mortality rate of 66% to 90% (NY is 80%.) It would be 100% without the ventilators. They go on ventilators when they
by clouddrover 7y ago
> Patients on ventilators have a reported mortality rate of 66% to 90% (NY is 80%.)
It would be 100% without the ventilators. They go on ventilators when they have to be on them and at that point the disease is severe and the prognosis is grim.
In the US 45,000 people have died from COVID-19 so far, and that's with all the countermeasures and restrictions that have been put in place. That number is still going up. Yesterday saw the highest number of new confirmed cases in the US since testing began:
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
- zamfi 7y ago> It would be 100% without the ventilators. They go on ventilators when they have to be on them This is not quite true. [0] Ventilators are one option at that stage of disease, and some doctors are moving away from them because of their negative effects. https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/04/08/health/ap-us-med-virus-outbreak-ventilator-deaths.html https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/04/08/health/ap-us-med...