Virus then and now

The United States has about 924,000 hospital beds and in the 2009 swine flu epidemic 265,000 were hospitalized. Between April 12, 2009, and April 10, 2010, the CDC estimates swine flu caused 60.8 million illnesses, 273,304 hospitalizations and 12,469 deaths in the U.S. If the current virus is similar this started in January 2020 and would abate by January of 2021. With all of the closings the hope is that the virus will not last as long.