[silverleaf]

850,000 ventilators will keep half or less of those patients alive

Seems to be turning out to be a blood disease, not a respiratory one
Need to re oxygenate the blood
Ventilators are damaging lungs acting futilely to do so

[riverdawg]

“Seems to be turning out to be a blood disease, not a respiratory one
Need to re oxygenate the blood
Ventilators are damaging lungs acting futilely to do so”

It’s more like an auto-immune disease in the most severe cases. That’s why hydroxychloroquine, which is used off-label to treat people with lupus and diabetes, seems to have some positive effect on those genetically pre-disposed to an over-active immune system.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/07/828091467/why-some-covid-19-patients-crash-the-bodys-immune-system-might-be-to-blame

[faucetman]

“Seems to be turning out to be a blood disease, not a respiratory one
Need to re oxygenate the blood
Ventilators are damaging lungs acting futilely to do so”

You actually believe that you could build a castle out of a bunch of junk. What a crock. Here we are, guys. Right where we belong. You got your Edsels,... Norges,... Dumonts... and Ventilators. Together at last, creating our own incredible monument to nothing! [shouts and claps his hands] Here’s to nothing, fellas! Here’s to nothing!

Paraphrasing Eddie Wilson, Eddie and the Cruisers

Creating the biggest stockpile of ventilators in the world that nobody will need because the press was obsessed with ventilators. A Season In Hell.