As doctors in the U.S. have watched Italy's health care system buckle under the sudden strain of the coronavirus, the magnitude of the problems that could be heading to the U.S. have begun to sink in, the Time website reports today (March 16, 2020).
The crises Italian medical staff have been facing -- overwhelming conditions, choosing which patients get treatment, and desperately working to expand their manpower -- are all things that hospitals in the U.S. could encounter if the virus continues on its path, doctors say.
As of today (March 16), the U.S. had more than 4,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, only a fraction of the approximately 28,000 cases in Italy.
"When you look at the projections, there's every chance that we could be Italy," U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams told Fox News today.
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