COVID-19 ICU Patients Twice as Likely to Die if Treated during Peak COVID-19 ICU Demand (VIDEO)

Regenstrief Institute

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Research from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine, published in JAMA Network Open, shows that people treated in the ICU for COVID-19 are twice as likely to die when the ICU capacity is strained by the number of COVID-19 patients.

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