I wonder if intubating these patients is actually killing them. I have ZERO evidence but is there an off chance they’re actually treating them incorrectly?

There’s the cytokine storm problem although I just wonder, for some weird and maybe even wrong reason, that the standard of care, the protocol for this particular viral infection is not intubation for most?

If you look at a video of the ICU or ward in Lombardy, everyone is either intimated or negative pressure oxygen. Yes, their Sp02 levels are bad and they have breathing difficulties. So I get why they are following standard protocol - but I just wonder if this particular infection, at its peak, requires a different approach.

But enough Doogie Howser from me.