A May 13 article from The People’s Voice made a bold claim about COVID-19 deaths that it attributed to an “official report” in a headline.
“Nearly all COVID-19 patients who died in hospital during the early phase of the pandemic were killed as a direct result of being put on a ventilator, a disturbing new report has concluded,” the article begins.
The article was shared more than 1,000 times on Facebook in six days, according to CrowdTangle, a social media analytics tool.
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The article drastically misrepresents a study that presented no data blaming ventilators for a large portion of COVID-19 deaths, according to one of the study's authors. Instead, it found COVID-19 patients were more likely to develop secondary bacterial pneumonia than patients with other forms of pneumonia.
The article focuses on a study from Northwestern University that looked at outcomes for patients placed on mechanical ventilators while in the ICU at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. It is not an "official report" from a government agency.
The study, published April 27 in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, also did not state anywhere that ventilators were responsible for the majority of COVID-19 deaths, according to Dr. Benjamin Singer,...
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