>>1459725For most people, a few days or weeks in hospital and they will be absolutely fine. But in countries with poor isolation or containment (China, Iran, Italy... and soon to be the US) hospitals are so overwhelmed with cases, that people who would otherwise survive with medical attention are triaged and left to die.
When American hospitals and ICUs start buckling under the strain of thousands of additional patients with pneumonia and multiple organ failure, the rest of the world will be ready to say "I told you so."