“China warned Italy. Italy warned us. We didn’t listen. Now the onus is on the rest of America to listen to New York,” writes Fred Milgrim, an emergency-medicine resident physician.

This article, from the magazine The Atlantic, offers a glimpse of how challenged and handicapped and overwhelmed the hospitals are in dealing with a pandemic, even in big Western cities:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/america-learn-new-york/608875/