Mechanical ventilation can easily damage the lungs for the fact that it's pushing air into the lungs with force in a disease where the alveoli are compromised and filled with fluid from inflammatory cytokines due to insulin resistance. HBOT bypasses this problem by supplying 100% oxygen in a pressurized chamber, which allows your body to bypass this defect and absorb oxygen directly into your tissues.

There's no airflow being forced directly into the lungs. HBOT also improves mitochondrial function, helps with detoxification, inhibits and controls inflammation and optimizes your body's innate healing capacity.

Louisiana Hospital Deploys HBOT for COVID-19

April 23, 2020, WGNO, a local Louisiana news station reported1 Opelousas General Hospital in Louisiana, which has a hyperbaric center, has been deploying "off-label compassionate use" of HBOT as an alternative for patients that would otherwise have required ventilation. Dr. Kelly Thibodeaux told WGNO:

"The thing we see with severe COVID-19 patients is a complication with an inability to carry oxygen in addition to the problem to lungs itself. It's not just lung injury. The virus does something to the red blood cells of certain patients …

Being inside hyperbaric chambers won't cause injury. It's a less invasive way to deliver oxygen that doesn't require sticking a tube down the trachea."