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by dntbnmpls 2257 days ago
It could also be that too many people not requiring ventilators are put on it. Ventilators are machines that can do significant damage. It's a machine of last resort.

There is a reason why 80 to 90% of doctors would refuse ventilators for themselves.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/your-doctor-probably-has-a-dnr-heres...

It could simply be an outlier or maybe defective machines or anything really. We don't know and we'll have to wait until the dust settles and we get more data.