When the hospitals run out of beds, it's a collapse in the system. It's not a "total medical system collapse" since it lasted a day or two and the number of people affected was small (probably around 10-100), but the situation could have easily been worse and we would have had one like new york last year.

It was never about deaths, it was always about number of hospital beds. If hospitals are over capacity, many people will die of covid and other curable and preventable things. Think Italy or Bolivia(?) in the beginning of the pandemic, with people literally dying on the streets.

You've probably heard of the parable of weeds growing on the lake. Every day it doubles, filling the lake in sixty days. When is the lake half full? At the fifty-ninth day.

SK is having >1k new patients per day now - an exponential growth means you're much closer to "total medical system collapse" than it seems.