you’re right. It is ridiculous. All this should be long-built into contingency plans. And we’re only talking (hopefully) a few thousand patients per state that are going to need ICU support
Do you see any tent cities set up to provide intensive care?
Think how long it would take to set up some, fully equipped and fully staffed.
NYC may hit the wall as soon as a week from today, almost certainly two weeks from today.
Ditto for Seattle, San Jose, SF, Boston and maybe a few days later DC.
Then the patients needing care double every two, three, four, five days, pick your number.
For another month or two after that...