For a time during the meltdown it might be wise to quit intubating the blue people. If no one comes off the vent we have to begin to think of the staff. This is an emergency. We cannot burn through the country’s doctors and nurses, etc. because everyone deserves a code. Everyone doesn’t deserve a code and after running over a hundred, the outcomes are miserable, anyway.
Found this from Wuhan.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2763184?appId=scweb
“Among the 67 patients who received mechanical ventilation, 44 (65.7%) died, 14 (20.9%) were discharged from the hospital, and 9 (13.4%) remained hospitalized. The median time from admission to developing ARDS was 2 days (IQR, 1-4 days). All of the patients who died had developed ARDS and received mechanical ventilation.”