[FreeReign]

As several people have pointed out - we actually have less ICU beds per 1000 people than Italy does, and look at how well that worked out for Italy.

The US has 34.7 ICU beds per 100,000 people.

Italy has 12.5.

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[Spktyr]

I type corrected, then. However, that number doesn’t always tell the entire story. My Dallas suburb, which has over 100K people has a hospital with a grand total of... 8. (Was just over there visiting someone who discovered gravity after being launched off a motorcycle.)

Also, I see that number is a few years old - seen any data reflecting all the inner city hospitals that shut down since then?

[Drago]

Italy leads in “regular hospital beds” per capita....no word on the ventilator/respirator count per capita.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_hospital_beds

[Taipei]

That’s total, not available. Think of everyone currently in ICU for ... whatever... occupying beds. How many available ICU beds could there really be? Now we have this disease which does not have terrifyingly high mortality, but does send 18-19% of the people who get it to the hospital.

Probable total cases are 40-70%, just do the math.
(Local Population) x 0.4 x 0.18 = Best case scenario
(Local Population) x 0.7 x 0.18 = Worst case scenario

Then you want to think about if those scenarios play out over three weeks, or three months.