Why ventilators are increasingly seen as a 'final measure' with

Health care providers are concerned that anxious Americans don't understand what it means to go on and then come off a mechanical ventilator, how the machines are being deployed in U.S. hospitals and the necessity of using this information to decide what you would want should you become seriously ill with COVID-19 and the device is offered.

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Why ventilators are increasingly seen as a 'final measure' with COVID-19

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