Starting Thursday, coronavirus testing will be available to all critical workers in Los Angeles that are on the front lines -- regardless of whether they have symptoms.
Nearly all Covid-19 patients put on ventilators in New York’s largest health system died, study findsNearly all coronavirus patients who needed ventilators to help them breathe died, a study of New York’s largest health system showed.died, and 88% of those placed on ventilators died. A ventilator is a device that forces air into the lungs of patients who cannot breathe on their own because of severe pneumonia or acute respiratory distress syndrome.
The team looked at the electronic health records of 5,700 patients with coronavirus disease hospitalized at Northwell Health. Final outcomes were known for 2,634 of them. “Of the patients who died, those with diabetes were more likely to have received invasive mechanical ventilation or care in the ICU compared with those who did not have diabetes,” the researchers wrote.
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