Prognosis
New Study Shows Nearly 9 in 10 Covid-19 Patients on Ventilators Don’t Make It
- Researchers tracked 2,634 outcomes in NY-area hospitals
- Only 3% of those over 65 on ventilators survived, report says
Photographer: Patrick Meinhardt/Bloomberg
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A giant study that examined outcomes for more than 2,600 patients found an extraordinarily high 88% death rate among Covid-19 patients in the New York City area who had to be placed on mechanical devices to help them breathe.
The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, is one of the largest reviews published to date of Covid-19 patients hospitalized in the U.S. The researchers examined outcomes for coronavirus patients who were admitted between March 1 and April 4 to 12 hospitals in New York City and Long Island that are part of the Northwell Health system.