COVID 19 may not have the death rate of the 1918 Spanish flu, and most people will probably recover with few complications.

But there are enough severe cases of coronavirus that the medical systems in some countries are already overwhelmed…just look at Italy, which is now under a country-wide lockdown.

Glenn reads a tweet thread from an intensive care nurse there who says hospitals are turning away stroke and heart attack victims, and some elderly coronavirus patients too.

Could that happen in the U.S., too?