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h2o

If anyone wants a better understanding of quite how brutal the ventilation process is, please read this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/opinion/coronavirus-ventilators.html

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Chalfie in reply to @h2o

Which is why MD has been suggesting intubating 80/90 year olds with covid is perhaps not a good idea.

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h2o in reply to @Chalfie

Indeed. The horrible details make it a lot clearer - I think people have been dealing too much in abstraction in this whole discussion
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kimchi in reply to @Chalfie

80-90 year olds with COVID aren’t getting intubated... the vast majority of people intimated are between 40 and 65.

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