Just in normal times our hospital gets full. It was a year ago that my MIL had pneumonia and they couldn’t admit her because the hospital was full. The hospitals in El Paso are regularly full too so any epidemic will soon overwhelm the medical community.
I read where the doctor and two assistants in Dallas that treated the Ebola guy are gone for 21 days for quarantine. No reason to think that won’t happen again and again - that will put a big dent in the health care equation.