Cuomo says the ventilators NY has have not been distributed because “the hospitals don’t need them yet.” He says he expects they will be needed when the NY outbreak reaches its apex.
— Brit Hume (@brithume) March 27, 2020
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From Breitbart:
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo acknowledged Friday the state did have a stockpile of unused ventilators, despite his complaints the federal government was not sending enough.
Cuomo responded to a comment from President Donald Trump on Twitter that there were thousands of ventilators in New York not being used.
“Yes, they’re in a stockpile because that’s where they are supposed to be, because we don’t need them yet,” Cuomo said. “We need them for the apex, the apex isn’t here, so we’re gathering them in a stockpile.”
Cuomo’s comments demonstrate there is not an immediate shortage in ventilators in New York City, despite alarming reports.
“We don’t need them today, because we’re not at capacity today, that’s why they’re not deployed because they’re not needed,” Cuomo said.
So Dr. Birx was right when she debunked those outrageous stories claiming DNR discussions due to limited resources.
Cuomo's dramatic rants about the lack of ventilators ring hollow when he admits he has thousands in a warehouse because they aren't needed yet.
Dr. Birx said there wasn't a shortage at this time. She was right.
Cuomo made a fool of himself.
All the Democrat/Leftist media alarmists also look like fools. They always do.
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All this political uproar over the lack of ventilators, yet one question remains unasked and unreported: Once a coronavirus patient is put on a ventilator in the hospital, what are his chances of survival?
Mary, you scour the internet for information on a daily basis. Have you found the answer to this question? If not, why not? Such statistics should be easy for our health providers to develop and make public.
Too many of the "facts" on the Wuhan coronavirus are contradictory. Some experts say things that are questionable or outright false. They have problems with math and sampling. I don't know if this information is valid. Obviously, we're still in the process of learning about the virus.
That said, from the Los Angeles Times:
"Dr. Lewis Rubinson, a New Jersey intensivist who wrote a guide for physicians caring for critically ill patients with COVID-19 that was published by the Society for Critical Care Medicine, said that based on the literature and information sharing in the intensivist community, about half of patients who get ventilated for COVID-19 survive, with chances of survival dropping with age."
Mary, thank you. I've listened on TV to anecdotes from ER doctors and read a few reports and speculations on the internet. I am willing to bet that, after all is said and done, a 50% survival rate is on the high side. The death rate in the months after a patient is removed from a ventilator is high as well. I think less than 10% ultimately survive. The point is that ventilators are not a panacea. Moreover, they are costly both in terms of dollars and staff required to run them. Keeping patients off ventilators should be the goal. That's why the therapeutic drugs are so critically important. Politicians who scream about a lack of ventilators are playing partisan games.
Avoid hospitals period, if possible. That's where the sickness lives.
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