Nearly all COVID-19 patients who died in hospital during the early phase of the pandemic were killed as a direct result of being put on a ventilator, a disturbing new report has concluded.
A new analysis suggests that most patients who were forced to be hooked up to a ventilator due to a COVID-19 infection also developed secondary bacterial pneumonia. This pneumonia was responsible for a higher mortality rate than the COVID-19 infection.
So while COVID-19 may have put these patients in the hospital, it was actually a secondary infection brought on by the use of a mechanical ventilator that caused their deaths.
“Our study highlights the importance of preventing, looking for, and aggressively treating secondary bacterial pneumonia in critically ill patients with severe pneumonia, including those with COVID-19,” says Benjamin Singer, a pulmonologist at Northwestern University in Illinois.
Sciencealert.com reports: The team looked at records for 585 people admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, also in Illinois. They all had severe pneumonia and/or respiratory failure, and 190 had COVID-19.
Using a machine learning approach to crunch through the data, the researchers grouped patients based on their condition and the amount of time they spent in intensive care.
The findings refute the idea that a cytokine storm following COVID-19 – an overwhelming inflammation response causing organ failure – was responsible for a significant number of deaths. There was no evidence of multi-organ failure in the patients studied.
Instead, COVID-19 patients were more likely to develop ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and for longer periods. Cases where VAP didn’t respond to treatment were significant in terms of the overall mortality rates in the study.
“Those who were cured of their secondary pneumonia were likely to live, while those whose pneumonia did not resolve were more likely to die,” says Singer.
“Our data suggested that the mortality related to the virus itself is relatively low, but other things that happen during the ICU stay, like secondary bacterial pneumonia, offset that.”
These results suggest that ICU outcomes could be improved if there were better strategies to diagnose and treat VAP episodes – something that the researchers say needs to be addressed in the future.
It’s worth bearing in mind that if a patient’s requirement for a ventilator to treat COVID-19 complications leads to VAP, this doesn’t imply that a COVID-19 infection is less dangerous, nor does it decrease the number of COVID-19 fatalities.
As the authors write in their paper, “The relatively long length of stay among patients with COVID-19 is primarily due to prolonged respiratory failure, placing them at higher risk of VAP.”
But the findings highlight a need for further study and to be cautious when making assumptions about the cause of death in COVID-19 cases. A detailed molecular analysis from the same study should reveal more about what makes the difference between recovering or not from VAP.
It’s also another example of how machine learning artificial intelligence can process vast amounts of data and spot patterns beyond us mere humans – whether it’s analyzing proteins or advancing mathematics.
“The application of machine learning and artificial intelligence to clinical data can be used to develop better ways to treat diseases like COVID-19 and to assist ICU physicians managing these patients,” says Catherine Gao, also a pulmonologist at Northwestern.
The research has been published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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Washington Post
By Ariana Eunjung Cha
April 26, 2020 at 10:25 p.m. EDT
This means don’t go on a ventilator whether they consider it ‘covid’ or not.
People who fell for the coronahoax lie died from ventilators.
FIFY
Crimes against humanity. MDs, RNs, PAs, LVNs, Hospital administration, and EVERYONE involved and covering for them.
Special attention for families who demanded alternate, known life-saving treatments, but were denied those.
No class action, each patient death an individual manslaughter/ murder/ malpractice suite with full discovery… all the way up the hospital admin/ govt agency chain-of-command.
With the harshest of penalties for the Intellectual-Yet-Idiot class of willing butchers, a message is sent to dual-citizen puppet-masters that no further cooperation with globalist genocide can be expected from their bankrupt and imprisoned pawns.
The truth is necessary for eventual reconciliation.
The article just does not say what the title says it says.
Read again 3 sections under Chart O’ Death.
Yet the media told me we had a ventilator shortage crisis. (Their stories mean nothing without that last word.) Anyway, Ford was pressed into a crash course in building them. Now they’re telling me that shortage was a good thing? The MSM is a Clear and Present Danger.
I don’t have to guess that the ICu covid protocol of intubation,ventilator,Remdesivir,morphine,and Versed was a euthanasia protocol. I know.I was an RN. Thankfully,i am now retired.
Not only is this article about 2 1/2 years late … but all of this was predicted by practicing physicians and medical researchers in very early 2020 … and, of course, it all came true.
The prediction was that 80% of the ventilator patients that were advanced stages of whatever they had would be fatal … and that’s what happened.
They don’t put people on a ventilator unless they are so sick they would almost certainly die otherwise.
Kind of skews the numbers right from the start. Regardless of the reason…other than a temporary measure
post operatively… being on a ventilator is a major indicator of future immediate mortality. Just the way it is.
There were some morally courageous nurses at a hospital in Queens NY who spoke out early on about how they were literally murdering people with ventilators. No one did a thing to stop it. I wonder where those nurses are now?
Most of the victims were poor minorities. Where was AOC on this?
If anyone in your family has to go to the hospital make sure you download this:
where those nurses are now?
Probably in the unemployment line. Fired and blackballed.