A study’s authors significantly updated their data about the rate of deaths among Covid-19 patients on ventilators in New York. The authors now say about 25% of those on ventilators have died, revised down from 88%. An earlier tweet has been deleted.
Correction: After this story published, the study's authors updated data in the JAMA report about the rate of deaths among Covid-19 patients on ventilators. The headline and story have been updated to reflect the corrected data.
It found that, overall, about 20% of Covid-19 patients treated at Northwell Health died, and 25% of those placed on ventilators died. A ventilator is a device that forces air into the lungs of patients who cannot breathe on their own because of severe pneumonia or acute respiratory distress syndrome. Other, smaller reports have indicated that patients who need ventilation are unlikely to survive. Read MoreAbout 20% of the patients in the study needed ventilators, Dr.
But 14% were treated in intensive care, 3% needed intensive dialysis and 21% died. Since final data was only available on about half of the patients, it's likely that the rates of survival will change considerably, the researchers said. "This study reported mortality rates only for patients with definite outcomes , and a longer-term study may find different mortality rates as different segments of the population are infected," the Northwell Health team wrote.
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