Doctors are overusing ventilators to protect themselves

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>https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/08/doctors-say-ventilators-overused-for-covid-19/
>One problem, though, is that CPAP and other positive-pressure machines pose a risk to health care workers, he said. The devices push aerosolized virus particles into the air, where anyone entering the patient’s room can inhale them. The intubation required for mechanical ventilators can also aerosolize virus particles, but the machine is a contained system after that.