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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
  • Older, male patients are the most susceptible to infection
How I Ended Up in Coronavirus Quarantine

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.