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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Is the issue here ventilator availability for other, more survivable conditions?
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Rather than answer this a dozen times, I'll put it in the thread. The mortality statistic is from this paper. "Mortality for those requiring mechanical ventilation was 88.1%" (in a NYC hospital system)https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765184 …
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Not the same across all hospital networks Source :
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Yeah, I saw that tweet and updated the thread. Seems like an important and interesting data point.
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