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Food4thought 10 points ago +11 / -1
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underthesmellybridge 8 points ago +9 / -1

You're reading it backwards.

"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.

Mortality is people who die, not people who survive.

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Food4thought 5 points ago +5 / -0

Adding to it, this study (done in May) puts the death rate at ~36% of the people who get vents end up dying.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-low-survival-rate-doctors-see-ventilators-as-gut-wrenching-last-resort/