03-01-2020, 10:18 AM
We might have 110,000 ventilators in US hospitals but they aren't "spare" ventilators most of them are already being used. According to this article that doesn't bode well:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...-hospitals
"The study shows the burden required to treat the 5% of so-called Covid-19 patients who develop critical illness, including septic shock and multi-organ failure....More than two-thirds of critically ill patients required invasive breathing support, doctors at the Jin Yintan hospital in the central Chinese city of Wuhan found in a study of 52 such cases at the outbreak’s epicenter.
The treatment was mostly for a respiratory complication that occurred in 26 of the 32 people who died from the disease. That’s more than 80%...Three of the Jin Yintan patients were still getting invasive ventilation at 28 days, including one whose blood was being pumped through an artificial lung in a sophisticated procedure known as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
That burden could become more acute: More than 40,000 people are hospitalized with Covid-19 in Hubei, health authorities for the Chinese province said in a Feb. 23 statement. Among those, 8,853 cases are serious and 1,845 are critically ill. The total number of cases in China is about 77,000."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...-hospitals
"The study shows the burden required to treat the 5% of so-called Covid-19 patients who develop critical illness, including septic shock and multi-organ failure....More than two-thirds of critically ill patients required invasive breathing support, doctors at the Jin Yintan hospital in the central Chinese city of Wuhan found in a study of 52 such cases at the outbreak’s epicenter.
The treatment was mostly for a respiratory complication that occurred in 26 of the 32 people who died from the disease. That’s more than 80%...Three of the Jin Yintan patients were still getting invasive ventilation at 28 days, including one whose blood was being pumped through an artificial lung in a sophisticated procedure known as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
That burden could become more acute: More than 40,000 people are hospitalized with Covid-19 in Hubei, health authorities for the Chinese province said in a Feb. 23 statement. Among those, 8,853 cases are serious and 1,845 are critically ill. The total number of cases in China is about 77,000."