Prognosis
At a Top Hospital in Mexico, 110 People Died Waiting for ICU Beds
- Almost half of patients who died couldn’t get ventilator
- Study was carried out Feb.-June 2020 during first wave
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One hospital in Mexico City was so saturated during the first wave of the pandemic that more than a hundred Covid-19 patients who participated in a study died after they couldn’t get an ICU bed.
The study was carried out at the prestigious public hospital Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran from Feb. 26 to June 5, 2020 and involved 800 adults with a confirmed Covid diagnosis. Billionaire Carlos Slim was treated there for the virus late last month.