Or the patients who end up on ventilators are already the most sick and likely to die. Just pointing out 80 percent doesn’t really mean anything. Is this guy embarking on a true study that will encompass all the variables?
“Or the patients who end up on ventilators are already the most sick and likely to die. “
Ventilators are for those with severe lung failure. No other choice.
The problem with your question is there is 0 support for the ventilators even doing anything to improve this situation.
My wife is a nurse and as she tells it ventilators are already next to a death sentence because so many things go wrong with them. Extremely high infection rates even for patients without a pre-existing condition or complicating illness, like those recovering from a surgery.
80% does mean something, at the morbidity rate we need to ask is it really helping or hurting, the answer must be determined as opposed to blindly continuing this treatment.