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 o

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.