In New York State's largest hospital system, 88 percent of covid-19 patients on ventilators died https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/22/coronavirus-ventilators-survival/ …
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This is not accurate (I made the same mistake). Please see this informative thread about what the study actually showedhttps://twitter.com/DrJohnScott/status/1253284905414426624 …
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John W Scott, MD MPH @DrJohnScott
A better conclusion?
- "Among the 1,151 pts who were mechanically ventilated, at a median follow up of 4.5 days, 3% had gone home, 25% had died, & 72% were still in the hospital".
- "The eventual mortaily rate will thus range between 25% (282/1151) and 97% (1113/1151)."
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