I am from India and this is just a personal theory based on interactions with my doctor and pharmacist friends. Most Indians are dying because of lack of medicines and oxygen, and it’s due to the inept Indian government.
I am hearing the same. Cases that would have been treated with O2 and dex are otherwise turning into fatalities. There was very little health-system to begin with. Now it’s just a humanitarian disaster.
I heard once someone needs oxygen, their chances aren't all that great anyway. Something like 65% I think?
Even so, what would be their chances without oxygen? You might easily be doubling the overall death rate without it
Are you sure that statistic wasn't for ventilators, not oxygen?
Yes, you're right - my bad!
FWIW, just anecdotally I know of quite a number of people whose saturation levels dropped below 80 and then recovered after being hospitalized and given oxygen.