South Carolina is pretty much in lock down.
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Do you EVER listen to the news or read the paper? During our normal flu season, do you recall a lot of news about how your local hospital is out of beds? They're calling out the military's hospital ships. Elective surgeries are postponed indefinitely. Some states are talking about setting up TENTS to treat the regular hospital patients. Trump wants manufacturers in this country to switch to making respirators, protective equipment, etc. This is apparently not a normal flu, in that it spreads so rapidly, those who are going to need hospital stays are going to flood the system all at once. It is spreading exponentially, and while most are not going to need hospitalization, the sheer size of the numbers catching it all at once is what has everyone hustling.
Per the CDC, there have only been 15,219 cases
nationwide from Jan 21st to date.
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the U.S.
That number of illnesses is not causing hospitals to be out of beds. In fact, the only places that could even plausibly be experiencing any such shortages are certain areas in NY, which has about half of the cases at this point, and Washington, which has another 1,500 or so. Throughout most of the country, the number of COVID-19 cases is relatively low per capita.
All of the talk of bed shortages, respirator shortages, etc, is based on speculation about the possible scope of the disease's spread, which is being cast in the most dire scenarios possible by the media.