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An increasing number of Colorado coronavirus patients are surviving, and fewer need ventilators

from The Colorado Sun

An increasing number of Colorado coronavirus patients are surviving, and fewer need ventilators The Colorado Sun As Colorado appears to reach the end of the first wave of the virus, new data from a collaborative of Colorado hospital systems shows just how sharply the use of ventilators has declined in this state, and how much patient outcomes have improved since the early days of coronavirus. The data represent 96% of COVID-19 patients who were admitted to a hospital in Colorado from March 1-May 31. That's a total of 4,903 patients across the state, all with a positive test for coronavirus. Just 13.3% of hospitalized patients spent any time on a ventilator in May, compared with 28.7% two months earlier. And the average number of days a patient with coronavirus stayed in the hospital fell to 6.82 days in May, compared with 11.78 days in March. READ MORE

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