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Coronavirus Patients’ Long Ventilator Stays Put Strain on Hospitals
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Severe Covid-19 cases spent more than 4 weeks on ventilators
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Older, male patients are the most susceptible to infection
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Critical care resources in central China are being strained by coronavirus patients needing a month or more on mechanical ventilators, a study finds.
More than two-thirds of critically ill patients required invasive breathing support, doctors at the Jin Yintan hospital in the central Chinese city of Wuhan found in a study of 52 such cases at the outbreak’s epicenter.