In addition to a higher mortality rate than the seasonal flu, the Wuhan coronavirus puts about 8 percent of patients in ICU which will be an enormous strain on our medical system.
This.
We have 100,000 respirators in the U. S.
People with this are in ICU 18 days on average.
What happens when we get past the first 100,000?
Those over 80 will be left to die. Then 70. Then pre-existing conditions.
Doctors will have to decide who lives and dies likely telling folks to just stay home at some point as they did in China, Italy, and Iran.