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A new paper offers fresh evidence ventilators killed Covid patients, suggesting ventilator-acquired pneumonia - not Covid itself - caused many deaths, while Sars-Cov-2 was relatively mild

Aggressive use of ventilators may have killed some Covid patients, a new paper from Northwestern University researchers suggests.

Covid itself has a “relatively low mortality rate" compared to other respiratory illnesses, the researchers found after examining about 600 patients with severe pneumonia. Yet Covid patients remained intubated longer than othe…