Why couldn’t polio patients dependent on mechanical ventilation be transferred from iron lungs to less invasive positive pressure ventilators once they were invented?

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I hope this is an okay post. It doesn’t directly concern any recent events per se, though a recent event did lead me to think of this question

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Answer 1

If you are referencing the guy in the iron lung that just passed, in an earlier article, it was indicated that he tried a modern ventilator and he didn’t like it. Staying in the iron lung was a choice that Paul Alexander made.