re: Would more people have lived if hospitals weren't so quick to put them on ventilators?

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Yep, look into Remdisivir, Fauchi made it first line, after it was pulled from the Ebola study,

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I wonder how much Fauci made from forcing the use of Remdesivir

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Nearly everything the people in charge did was wrong... Instead of taking a wait and see approach and adapting, they threw everything they could at the wall and killed hundreds of thousands of people.

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Almost like they needed it to be worse than it was.

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I'm not medical professional, but when a person's oxygen levels are dropping, what you can do besides put them on a vent or something like a bipap machine?

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Yes I can tell...

We did use bipaps and high flow nasal oxygen, but you can only do so much with non-invasive ventilation. You can't protect an airway, they have issues with aspiration which leads pneumonias.

People in full blown respiratory failure from covid needed higher levels of what's called PEEP, which you can't get with bipaps.

The Pts were drowning so putting them on a vent does no good. You can’t force air into lungs that aren’t working . It was all fear mongering via deaths to steal the election.

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seems like they were pretty quick to put people on ventilators despite this new claim. 

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I don't think they are ever quick to place a patient on a ventilator.

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 I remember this being the reported standard 

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This was the standard treatment for patients that would have died had they not been on the respirator.

Covid patients were not just placed on ventilators.

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their rush to put people on ventilators cause Ventilator-associated pneumonia in some people who may have lived otherwise?

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They didn't rush to put people on ventilators. They're was a concern that they're weren't going to be enough ventilators.

If you wait too long to place people on ventilators they can already have anoxic injuries that will make it more difficult to survive.

So it's always a balancing act. Were some people placed on ventilators early? No doubt. There are good doctors and there are bad doctors just like in any field.

As far as pneumonia from ventilators go, it's a known issue. Secondary infections can happen frequently and it can be difficult to tell when they are intubated because their lungs are already diseased and one can't tell from imaging if the progression is from the underlying process or from a new super infection.

My dad was in a cycle of vents, bipaps, and nasal cannulas last year when he went south.

I misread your post upthread. I initially took it to mean vents were overused. I see that instead what you were saying is when it gets to that point, a vent is the only hope and whatever else comes with that is just part of the deal.

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Were some people placed on ventilators early? No doubt. There are good doctors and there are bad doctors just like in any field.

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Doctors weren't really making the calls, though. It seemed like it was SOP for hospitals to just vent people if they came in with CV. I remember the press conferences of people begging for more vents several months into it.

On this one South Park episode they ate through their butts and the waste came out of their mouths.

No they sure as hell didn't. They got paid more to use a ventilator

Thing was about Covid 19, no-one knew how to treat it, it was all new. At first we were treating it like pts in ARDS, then they realized if was a blood clotting issue with people having micro-emboli in their pulmonary vasculature.

Once they learned how to treat it with blood thinners and what's called CRRT, Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy, it became much easier to treat, and less mechanical positive pressure ventilation was needed.