You clearly do not understand the problem. Breathing support is REQUIRED in many of the severe cases. In a 1000 bed hospital, I would be surprised if they own 50 respirators. The respirator can be required by a single patient for as long as two weeks. It’s not about the number of doctors or the number of beds available or the availability of medicines. It’s about the number of respirators limiting the number of people that can have their lack of lung function supported. If the rate of spread can be slowed, it means that fewer people need breathing assistance at any one time.
Looking at the Worldometer stats, I see that 1% of the current U.S. cases are categorized as being serious or critical. The rest are categorized as being mild.
So what is the current number of cases that are using breathing support in hospitals?
Also remember, we had 300,000 hospitalized cases of swine flu in 2009. Were are hospitals able to handle the load back then?