Covid-19 in Critically Ill Patients in the Seattle Region — Case Series

Useful series from the Pacific North West, main questions:

-Why four patients who had a do-not-resuscitate order on admission were included in the dead and, ultimately, why been admitted in an ITU/ICU setting?

-How come no sputum samples from nine fatalities were ever sent for bacterial culture in an ITU/ICU setting?

It has been highlighted by experts such as Ioannides of Stanford that, since we cannot/will not screen for this elusive SARS-associated virus, we cannot computate mortality nor ultimately ascribe CAUSATION.