I should add that we currently have about 930,000 hospital beds in the U.S. for a population of 327M.
That’s always been the case. We can just take turns. :)
Hospital beds are nice for patients with mild symptoms, but when the lung is sufficiently impaired a patient will have to be connected to a ECMO machine to help oxygenate the blood in order to survive. Once hooked up, the machine cannot be removed until the patient either gets better or dies. There has to be only a limited number of these machines.
The Chinese communists like to tout the number of beds as propaganda to show they are making a lot of effort. In fact, their facilities are nothing more than death camps where they throw all kinds of people in there guarded by the military making it easy to manage and hide these people’s fate.
930,000 hospital beds.
The guy in Washington state was put in a positive air isolation unit. The hospital had one unit, two beds. I’m guessing many hospitals in the state of Washington have similar - but probably a total that are in the hundreds.
That’s great if the cases remain isolated. When five people show up at time - not so good.