Unfortunately, in Italy, space for other hospital departments has had to be converted to extra space for acute COVID-19 cases. (And they're still overflowing, to the point of doing battlefield triage to determine which severe but potentially viable patients get the ventilators.) It would be very unfortunate for that to also happen here, but unfortunately, Seattle at least seems to be trending that way.
US are not even testing, theres a ton of evidence that cases upon cases that match the description of corona does not get tested. The US could very well be much much futher ahead already than the current official claims.. Much like China was criticised for.
It might be better to look at beds available near the major disease clusters rather than a country as a whole, given that patients are unlikely to be transported around the country to fill the beds.
Italy actually has a pretty good healthcare system, especially in the North, better than in the States (unless you're rich). The bigger difference is that the Italian population skews older. And with the situation at US airports right now it looks like there is some bad news coming down in another two weeks or so.
