If you make it to a ventilator, odds are you are going to die. The discharge rate if you get on a ventilator is about 85% in the US so far from COVID19. If the 1 year survival rate works for these like it does for other ventilator patience, 92-95% will have died within a year. The key is to not need a ventilator.
If you are correct then Trump should be plowing all of our resources into expanding drug therapies. Not producing 40,000 ventilators to keep Andrew Cuomo’s trap shut.