The math is fugly.
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) March 17, 2020
Consider California. California has 40m people. If 20% of them get sick, and 5% of those need to be hospitalized (very optimistic numbers), that means California will need 400k hospital beds.
Unfortunately, the state only has 74k staffed hospital beds. https://t.co/tTaJ48wUTt