hot take: all the desperate measures being taken around ventilators don't matter because the data we have out of China tells us that if it hits you hard enough that you need invasive respiration, you aren't going to make it
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IIRC, CFR was ~1.5% and ICU usage was ~5%? I'd been interpreting ICU as "Is on a ventilator", but was I wrong about that?
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ICU doesn't appear to mean ventilator, no:https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30566-3/fulltext …
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progression is hospital -> ICU -> ventilator -> dead, as I understand it there are probably more steps in there like "on oxygen" but I think almost everyone hospitalized for the roni gets that?
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yeah, i wouldn't want to be read as suggesting that oxygen is irrelevant, what with how i have a couple of oxygen concentrators being laboriously shipped to me but full disclosure i wanted one of those for a while anyway just for nootropic purposes
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