4985 () posted 102 days ago by ratioetlogicae 102 days ago by ratioetlogicae +4987 / -2 332 comments share 332 comments share save hide report block hide child comments Comments (332) sorted by: top new old worst You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread. ▲ 10 ▼ – Food4thought 10 points 102 days ago +11 / -1 ~15% chance of survival. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/15/856768020/new-evidence-suggests-covid-19-patients-on-ventilators-usually-survive The article states they could get it up to as high as 50% permalink save report block reply ▲ 8 ▼ – underthesmellybridge 8 points 102 days 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. permalink parent save report block reply ▲ 5 ▼ – Food4thought 5 points 102 days 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/ permalink parent save report block reply
~15% chance of survival.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/15/856768020/new-evidence-suggests-covid-19-patients-on-ventilators-usually-survive
The article states they could get it up to as high as 50%
You're reading it backwards.
Mortality is people who die, not people who survive.
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/