“Only about 50% of patients on ventilators are surviving at best.”
The worldwide average is about 30%. And those that do survive have permanent lung damage...often so severe they need O2 and machines the rest of their short days.
At best I would put them at priority #2 after masks.
New York City will bury coronavirus victims in public parks in 10-body trenches if the relentless death toll keeps climbing as officials warn the pandemic is like ‘an ongoing 9/11’ for medical examiners