COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

I agree that we need to be on the same page for discussions. At the same time we should be using correct terminology because it causes confusion. Since he was talking to an EMT the assumption should be correct terminology. The media has been terrible about this though. As usual.
Last night the moderator on CNN kept saying the nurse he was interviewing was on a ventilator. She interrupted several times to correct him that she was on supplemental O2. That is a huge difference but supplemental O2 isn’t nearly as dramatic as a ventilator.