They still have beds and ventilators, but there’s a crazy mortality rate for any patient that needs to be intubated. I won’t repeat the number she told me, but ventilators aren’t going to be enough.
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Survival rate for ventilator-treated CCP-19 folks is extremely low.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30633-4/fulltext
To be fair, if you have to be intubated, it’s almost certainly because you have ARDS, and that alone is, ahem, not good.
I’m not going to pass on the anecdotal experience of a single doctor, but the survival rate from the Lancet article is substantially better than what she reported.
This ain’t the flu.