Eighty-eight percent of patients treated at Northwell Health in New York died after being placed on a ventilator, according to a study published Thursday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
They found that 12.2 percent, or 320 patients, received invasive mechanical ventilation. The mortality rate for that group was 88.1 percent.
Northwell Health, New York’s largest healthcare provider, includes Lenox Hill on the Upper East Side, the Staten Island University medical facilities and LIJ in Forest Hills and New Hyde Park.
New York City has 145,855 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 11,267 deaths. Nearly 20,000 people have recovered.
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