Here is a citation showing 80% mortality form ventilators. It is from WebMD, a slightly less authoritative site, but valid in this - now - non-controversial case:
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200415/ventilators-helping-or-harming-covid-19-patients#1
And this is kind of the point. Remember how New York's Governor Cuomo, and many others, were screaming at the Trump Administration for more ventilators, then even using ventilators in a doubled up capacity, despite that being highly NOT recommended since each person's ventilation needs to be individually calibrated and infections can spread across the conjoined tubes?
What was accepted and standard practice just two to three months ago, is now very controversial. It now seems that just turning a patient onto his or her front is a better choice than using ventilators. Lungs are mostly in the back, and a person with weakened lungs can suffocate just from their own body weight, particularly if they are obese - 40% of American adults are that's a very high risk factor for Covid-19.
That's another thing: co-morbidity factors are almost universal in bad outcomes for Covid-19.
But the early modeling of death rates just showed a ridiculously simplistic extrapolation, assuming everyone was equally susceptible. More and more it's becoming clear that people have been getting Covid-19 by the millions with little or no symptoms - 23% just in NY alone, according to a study that just came out two days ago.
Here too:
Does this mean people like Rush Limbaugh were right when he said Covid-19 was mostly just like a bad case of the flu? More importantly, does it matter?
Now, there are other studies that are showing that only 10-20% of people need to be infected for the herd immunity to the the most serious outcomes: hospitalization and death to occur.
Kim Iversen - she of the self-proclaimed "Thoughtful Left" - cited them in a video, about which I wrote a short article here: https://www.opednews.com/articles/Bombshell-Report-Herd-Imm-by-Scott-Baker-Covid-19_Herd-Immunity_Herd-Immunity-200718-57.html
My comment responses to other people's comments turned out to be much longer than the article itself.
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