To end the coronavirus pandemic, the US is either going to have to continue with extreme social distancing measures or have 'ubiquitous' testing, according to Dr. Anish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Initiative
Nearly all Covid-19 patients put on ventilators in New York’s largest health system died, study findsNearly all coronavirus patients who needed ventilators to help them breathe died, a study of New York’s largest health system showed.died, and 88% 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.
The team looked at the electronic health records of 5,700 patients with coronavirus disease hospitalized at Northwell Health. Final outcomes were known for 2,634 of them. “Of the patients who died, those with diabetes were more likely to have received invasive mechanical ventilation or care in the ICU compared with those who did not have diabetes,” the researchers wrote.
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