Did ventilators kill 'nearly all Covid patients' early in the pandemic? No -- a widely shared article misrepresents a study that looked only at outcomes for patients who would have died had they not been offered mechanical life support
But Singer, a professor of pulmonary medicine at the university's Feinberg School of Medicine, said the People's Voice headline misrepresents this finding.
"Hence, primary pneumonia -- including Covid-19 -- was the cause of death in patients who died during our study." The study findings highlight the importance of preventing and treating VAP in critically ill patients, he added. But there are limitations to the research.
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