You might want to rethink that. The doctor in NYC said he had been intubating people all day and none survived. As a retired doctor that is the definition of horror.
There's a Chinese study, translated in Lancet, stating that 97% of intubations for covid-19 ended up with the patient dying anyway. Whereas patients put on ventilators who did not require intubation had a slightly higher survival rate, with only 92% dying. Ventilators help people get oxygen, but don't prevent the multiple organ failure that is the said to be the cause of death for a significant number of deaths. I wonder if compromised immune systems are a factor for organ shutdowns.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30566-3/fulltext
What's curious about this article is that only 21% of patients got antivirals (of which 29% died). I wonder why.
Table 2Treatments and outcomes
Total (n=191) Non-survivor (n=54) Survivor (n=137) p value Treatments
Antibiotics 181 (95%) 53 (98%) 128 (93%) 0·15 Antiviral treatment 41 (21%) 12 (22%) 29 (21%) 0·87 Corticosteroids 57 (30%) 26 (48%) 31 (23%) 0·0005 Intravenous immunoglobin 46 (24%) 36 (67%) 10 (7%) <0·0001 High-flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy 41 (21%) 33 (61%) 8 (6%) <0·0001 Non-invasive mechanical ventilation 26 (14%) 24 (44%) 2 (1%) <0·0001 Invasive mechanical ventilation 32 (17%) 31 (57%) 1 (1%) <0·0001 ECMO 3 (2%) 3 (6%) 0 0·0054 Renal replacement therapy 10 (5%) 10 (19%) 0 <0·0001
To put someone on a vent you have t intubate them. I certainly have never seen anyone try something else and i imagine if you tried there would be so many leaks you wouldn’t even be ventilating the patient. You. Would be ventilating the room.
Whereas patients put on ventilators who did not require intubation had a slightly higher survival rate, with only 92% dying.
THAT's a relief!!
But really; how long do they LIVE before they finally die?