Do no harm. …unless it’s invasive ventilation to stop the spread of cooties, of course

Your regular reminder that at the start of Covid doctors were recommending using invasive ventilation rather than “high-flow nasal oxygen or noninvasive ventilation due to risk of dispersion of aerosolized virus.”

That is to say, they were intubating patients they otherwise would not have, not for the patient’s benefit.

Here are the guidelines.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/articlepdf/2762996/jama_murthy_2020_it_200008.pdf

h/t @AJKayWriter

And this was covered by the WSJ in 2020.