It's worse than you think

@sh76 said
Where did you see 50%?

I keep hearing that 80-90% of people who go on ventilators don’t come off.

I’ve heard quoted on media that survival rate was about 30-60%.
I used 50% for sake of argument.

@mghrn55 said
Yes, there is a point to be made there.
It's called flattening the curve.
That prevents the healthcare system from being overwhelmed and allows other procedures (heart surgery, cancer surgery) to be carried out.
This keeps preventable deaths out of the statistics.
Preventable deaths also include COVID 19.
A patient that needs a ventilator and gets one has about a 50% cha ...[text shortened]...
If that patient can't get onto a ventilator, that chance drops to 0%.
That's a preventable death.

True, ,but notice I did not say death, I said "prevent people from getting it" - meaning, getting infected, not dying.

@mghrn55 said
I’ve heard quoted on media that survival rate was about 30-60%.
I used 50% for sake of argument.

this shat is all over the place. Continually changing it up.

First there is this:
Early reports from China, the United Kingdom and Seattle found mortality rates as high as 90% among patients on ventilators. And more recently, a study of some New York hospitals seemed to show a mortality rate of 88%.
NOTE: they say "experts"

Further on, we have this:
"We think that mortality for folks that end up on the ventilator with [COVID-19] is going to end up being somewhere between probably 25% up to maybe 50%," Cooke says.
NOTE: Cooke, being yet another "expert".

Geeeezus, can these experts ever get on the same page?


https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/15/856768020/new-evidence-suggests-covid-19-patients-on-ventilators-usually-survive