Forgive me if this is a cold question; I genuinely want to understand the answer. Isn't a 90% death rate of coronavirus patients on ventilators somewhat in tension with the message that we have to do everything in our power to flatten the curve so we don't run out of ventilators?
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Follow up: excellent thread here explaining why the 88% mortality figure for ventilators is misleading (it leaves out 3/4 of the study participants)https://twitter.com/DrJohnScott/status/1253284905414426624 …
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That’s because the severity level of patients who put on ventilators were different across hospitals. There is no single guideline across the board determining who deserves a ventilator and who doesn’t. E.g., some may allocate ventilators to elderlies with chronic conditions.
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Also, correlation ≠ causation.
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This comment just posted on the thread you linked seems relevant https://twitter.com/NeeleyEunice/status/1253174623190913024 …
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If you look at the numbers of critically ill to numbers of available ventilator, there seems to be a positive correlation between ventilator availability (relative to number of patients who need it) and mortality rate. One of likely multiple other factors
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There is also this footnote saying bilevel flow ventilators are not being used in treatment. So I think it’s also worth asking would the results differ with different equipment?pic.twitter.com/yYGeukPNm0
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Pretty sure I saw wildly different rates for mortality rates, Imeecall being impressed on how better numbers were in Austria and Germany vs Nortern Italy for example. Maybe it has to do with the overall state of the health system and the condition patients were when incubated?
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This was reported on today in the daily
#COVID19 briefing here in Greece. chief medical scientist said that numbers over here are roughly at 40-50% of those in ICU making it & while not certain about high %s in some countries posited it might be due to overburdened health system
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