Doctors were freaking out at very low finger-clip O2 saturation of patients who were not in respiratory distress and still coherent. Put them on ventilator.
Cranked the ventilator too high trying to get them above 90% saturation. Killed them trying.
There was no need to put them on ventilator at all, as O2 saturation for hospitalized SARS-2 patients is a very, very bad indicator. Those poor patients needlessly intubated and mecanically ventilated represented over half of deaths in the first few months, and were perfectly avoidable.
Do you remember the first dude dead after the contamination event at a Miami gay pride festival? ( lung AIDS, not ass AIDS )
He was texting perfectly coherent messages to his buddy to say the doctor was putting him on a ventilator. That's probably what killed him.
Doctors were freaking out at very low finger-clip O2 saturation of patients who were not in respiratory distress and still coherent. Put them on ventilator.
Cranked the ventilator too high trying to get them above 90% saturation. Killed them trying.
There was no need to put them on ventilator at all, as O2 saturation for hospitalized SARS-2 patients is a very, very bad indicator. Those poor patients needlessly intubated and mecanically ventilated represented over half of deaths in the first few months, and were perfectly avoidable.
Do you remember the first dude dead after the contamination event at a Miami gay pride festival? ( lung AIDS, not ass AIDS )
He was texting perfectly coherent messages to his buddy to say the doctor was putting him on a ventilator. That's probably what killed him.