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What is the mortality rate for #COVID19 patients put on a mechanical ventilator? A new @JAMA_current
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… provided substantial data, adding to the UK registry, and 4 other published papers w/ small patient numbers
Overall death rate ~70%, weighted by top 2👇
The use of mechanical ventilators may be contributing to the high mortality rate:
Mechanism, review, recommendations
ajtmh.org/content/journa…
propublica.org/article/ventil… @propublica
@CarolineYLChen
statnews.com/2020/04/21/cor… @statnews @sxbegle
As noted in the Table footnote, the data I included were for known status (discharged or died). For this reason, the Lombardy @JAMA_current report w/ 58% in the ICU, was not included, or other data w/ unknown final status
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
Will keep 👀on this w/ more data
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