Survival rates of Covid 19 patients mechanically ventilated is astoundingly low. Death is the outcome for 50-60%. In New York, 80% of ventilated are dying.
Of the survivors there can be long term lung damage. Maybe even permanent disability. The cure sounds brutal and desperate.
A simple breath. So normal and yet so vital. So natural and yet such a delicate balance. It’s too bad that our crude invention, the ventilator, is more like a death sentence and less like a godsend.
Hospitals and ICU’s should be a place to seek out in desperate times. Instead have become fearsome pipelines to the grave.