No, they still do it. Apparently friend's coworker had a tube shoved down his throat.
After nearly two years, you'd think they would have come up with another solution or something. I'm not aware of any case of someone being intubated and recovering.
There's no incentive to try anything else when the government is paying you ~40k to diagnose and kill someone with a ventilator.
Hell, you could argue the incentive is to find a reason to intubate.
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