60+% of patients at the hospital in the ICU (where ventilators are used) should not have been put on ventilators there. As the article shows, one hospital lost 60% of its patients needing advanced care by treating everyone as if they had ARDS. The other hospital that stopped giving ventilators to the 70% needing advanced other treatment had zero deaths.
ARDS needs ventilators. That is not what most of the ICU cases benefit from.
“ARDS needs ventilators. That is not what most of the ICU cases benefit from.”
If I remember correctly you said only 30% of ARDS patients need ventilators.