> If they were putting people onto the ventilators who did not meet the normal criteria for doing so
The ventilator is a last effort to keep people alive. My pulmonologist told me to go to the hospital to get Remdesivir and a ventilator. I fired her.
With bleeding lungs I required 7 liters of O2 to keep my SpO2 above 88%. Monoclonal antibodies had me up in a day.
Anyone who went in and was put on a ventilator did not meet the normal criteria. The ventilator is for those who cannot take a breath, not for those who cannot get oxygen from their lungs to their blood.
They knew this from the very first experiences in NYC.