The vast majority of COVID-19 patients on mechanical ventilation eventually wake up, a key finding that should be considered in making decisions about life-sustaining therapies.
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Doctors at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore found important differences in lung cells between animals infected with SARS-CoV-2 who did or did not get the BCG vaccine, they reported on Tuesday on bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.15.484018v1 ahead of peer review.
Most patients with severe COVID who are put on ventilators regain consciousness after removal of respiratory support, but recovery may take weeks after the period of mechanical ventilation has ended, according to a new study by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Harvard Medical School, NewYork-Presbyterian and Massachusetts General Hospital.