Little is talked about the life of these people after they are "saved", whatever that word means. Besides sequelae from Covid itself, you're getting ECMO sequelae as a cherry on top. You can't just go back to life as it was.
The ones that survive the treatment (less than half) are never the same. But they aren't dead.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/publications/hopkins_me...
> The sickest of survivors frequently experience delirium at some point in their course of treatment. The condition occurs in 70 to 80 percent of acute respiratory failure cases, according to a 2013 study in the New England Journal of Medicine. Among the elderly the ICU delirium rate is similarly at about 80 percent, experts say.
That's not my objection.
I'm saying the folks who do it intentionally may not always be of sound mind. It's not uncommon for folks coming out of anesthesia to panic and be distressed, especially if they're intubated.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10928-z
(I am not taking a position on the findings of that study, just providing a link as a reference.)
Keep in mind the metric they use (IRR - incident rate ratio) is a ratio, not a percent. So an IRR of 15 means 1500% more events. Table 2 lays out everything quite nicely. To see it you need to click on figures/tables and scroll down a bit.
[1] - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/...
I suggest you use https://hn.algolia.com/ to search for past stories or comments (make sure to use the correct combo selections, otherwise it won’t give you what you want!).
(where "cost of doing business" is defined as "not dying from a disease which is easily preventable in the vast majority of cases")
[1] - https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25133462-800-myocardi...
Ayup. Had a close relative like this--he was about 10 years younger than me and still has a teenager. He got Delta and wound up on ECMO. He didn't make it.
All because anti-vax was part of his social identity.
And it's not like he didn't know. I got Covid Original Flavour(tm) and loudly told everybody around me how much it sucked (it was basically the 3rd sickest I've ever been in my life) and all the side effects I got from it.