This piece shows a significant correlation between health care burden and case fatality rate (CFR, the number of people out of all the cases who die). In other words, if the hospitals are overwhelmed, there's not enough staff or resources, more people die. The US is largely unprepared for an epidemic like this. Pandemic preparedness budgets have been slashed. It's a previously unknown virus. https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1232663794364682242