I SAW EARLIER THAT THE SURVIVAL RATE FOR NHS PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS WAS SURPRISINGLY HIGH, BUT MAYBE IT’S NOT SO SURPRISING IN LIGHT OF THIS: Intensive care for coronavirus patients now limited to those ‘reasonably certain’ to survive, NHS London Trust concedes. “A department head at Imperial College Healthcare revealed on Sunday that fewer and fewer marginal patients are being selected for ventilator treatment because so many serious cases require a fortnight on the machines.”