Just Venting

The Orange Shitgibbon and his minions keep evading the obvious. How do we know that the number of deaths will skyrocket? Because the number of patients who get a ventilator and survive is well below 50%. It's too early to have exhaustive data, but here

A paper from China involved 710 Covid-19 patients; 52 were admitted to an ICU. Of the 22 who eventually required mechanical ventilation, 19 (86%) died. Another early study reported 31 of 32 (97%) mechanically ventilated patients died.

and here .

And a study of 18 ventilated patients in Washington state found that nine were still alive when the study ended, but only six had recovered enough to breathe on their own.

So, if we're lucky, half of ventilated patients make it. So, how many ventilated patients are there right now New York City?

Right now, there are 6,500 ventilators deployed in downstate New York, according to the John Bruno, the Director of Public Information for the NYS Department of Health.
[byline date is 3 April]

and this should keep your attention

The Society of Critical Care Medicine, a health professional organization, recently pointed to one estimate that projected that nearly a million patients would require ventilation during the COVID-19 outbreak.
[that million patients is USofA, not global]

If that million comes to pass, then ~500,000 will die. Just a cold, right Rush?