I'd read medical studies and news articles over the summer that intubation was causing worse outcomes than things like proning in many cases, with dramatically improved survival rates in hospitals that avoided intubation.
I'm wondering if advice on that has changed at this point.
There was also an interesting piece on HN about jailbreaking CPAP machines to increase supply, although that might not be necessary now?
The standard of care has evolved based on the data. Unlike other respiratory infections, intubation often provides no benefits and some harm to those COVID patients who are not literally dying of asphyxiation (critically low O2 saturation). Basically intubation is now a last-ditch effort, that can and does save lives. But you'd better hope you don't need it because the likelihood of needing intubation AND surviving it are low.
