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.
A principle abandoned reveals it to only ever have been a vanity.
One of the motivations for this was to keep the patients from spreading the virus to doctors/nurses. For those who died from the ventilators, this was negligent homicide at best.