Coronavirus Mortality Rate On Ventilator . The government has said it will buy thousands of ventilators to help ease the pressure on hospitals caused by the coronavirus crisis. Ventilation itself, though, may not be the problem. ‘Major breakthrough’ as cheap drug found to reduce Covid ... (Billy Garrett) Most coronavirus patients who end up on ventilators go on to die, according to several small studies from the U. Almost two-thirds of coronavirus sufferers on ventilators in UK do not survive. As the virus moves to different places, the mortality will inherently be different, and must, therefore, be representative of the. (CNN) About a quarter of coronavirus patients who needed ventilators to help them breathe died within the first few weeks of treatment, a study of New York's largest health system showed. "This study reported mortality rates only for patients with definite outcomes (discharge or death), and a. Doctors in New York City, the center of...