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Lots of sources. This one is from April 23, 2020: Special Report: As virus advances, doctors rethink rush to ventilate - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hea

Lots of sources. This one is from April 23, 2020: Special Report: As virus advances, doctors rethink rush to ventilate - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ventilators-specia/special-report-as-virus-advances-doctors-rethink-rush-to-ventilate-idUSKCN2251PE https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ventil... This is not even a good source, just something that I linked to in a previous comment here. Remember how the governments were rushing Ventilator production, then those efforts got memory-holed? This was because the professionals realized they shouldn't try to ventilate every COVID-19 patient in their hospital.

tylerhou 6y ago
From your article: > The picture is partial and evolving, but it suggests people with COVID-19 who have been intubated have had, at least in the early stages of the pandemic, a higher rate of death than other patients on ventilators who have conditions such as bacterial pneumonia or collapsed lungs. > This is not proof that ventilators have hastened death: The link between intubation and death rates needs further study, doctors say. A summary: we shouldn't ventilate everyone because ventilation has risks (like all medical treatments). Nowhere does the article claim that ventilation is a "death sentence" as you originally claimed.