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by ajross
2254 days ago
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That's a fair point: another angle to the same issue is that not all ventilators are equal. Under normal circumstances a patient gets intubated and goes on the presumptively most reliable machine the hospital has and is cared for by the people who have the most experience managing these cases and devices. When the hospital fills up, you get whatever junk the hospital can get working and are attended by nurses and techs pulled in from other departments. That's a reasonable hypothesis, I think. But yeah, we just don't know. And it may be years before we do. No one has the ability to do a controlled study right now. (Edit: it's absolutely infuriating to see the comment to which I'm replying here grayed out from downvotes. It's a completely reasonable notion phrased as a question, yet HN... doesn't want to hear the answer?) |
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You're right and I've given it a corrective upvote. For a time, I had a PSA in my profile indicating that I think downvotes will be weirder and more hair trigger during a global pandemic. I'm trying to be more thick skinned about weirdness happening in votes on my own comments, but, yes, it's just adding sand in the gears at a time when we don't need more noise.