A claim that ventilators “killed nearly ALL” COVID-19 patients is mischaracterizing a study’s findings.
was conducted by researchers at the university’s Feinberg School of Medicine who observed cases of ventilator-associated pneumonia and tracked when the pneumonia was unsuccessfully treated.
People whose cases of secondary pneumonia were treated successfully had a better chance of survival than those who did not respond to treatment, Singer said. Of 585 patients whose treatments were observed in the study, 243 died — 87 of whom had COVID-19. "While was not associated with mortality overall, mortality was higher in patients with one episode of unsuccessfully treated VAP compared with successfully treated VAP," the authors wrote.
Overall, the study showed that ventilator-associated pneumonia that didn’t respond to treatment contributed to a higher risk of mortality — but COVID-19 was the primary cause of death.The claims cited a Northwestern University study as evidence. But the study’s author said the claim is inaccurate. Researchers studied ventilator-associated pneumonia, including in patients with COVID-19. They found that while ventilator-associated pneumonia contributed to a higher risk of mortality, it was not the primary cause of death — COVID-19 was.
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