> without ventilation we would have around 3 times more death
In that subgroup. A large part (I'd say a majority) of the people who died never used a ventilator.
In that subgroup. A large part (I'd say a majority) of the people who died never used a ventilator.
True. But hold on: in my country (France), as of yesterday, 45 635 people have died in hospital (having access to a ventilator with few exceptions) and 19 780 outside (no ventilator). So in my country, the majority of covid19 victims had access to a ventilator. And given that a large part of the deaths took place in western countries, that subgroup is big.
« Pourquoi une grande majorité des morts du Covid-19 à l'hôpital ne sont jamais passés par la réanimation ? »
https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/2020/12/11/pourquoi-une-...
Edit: https://42info.fr/les-morts-a-lhopital-qui-ne-sont-pas-passe...
Taking that in account, out of the 45k who died in hospital, 12k died after being admitted in ICU. In the meantime, ICU saved 32k people (73%)[1], which is indeed far lower than my previous estimation, I stand corrected.
[1]: https://drees.solidarites-sante.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/dd67.pdf (page 17) which is the document quoted in your article.