South Korea also has 4x as many hospital beds per 1000 people as Italy does.

They still suffered a shortage of hospital beds in the hard-hit area around Daegu, so much so that some people died while waiting.

Italy and other countries with fewer hospital beds will have to resort to what China did: build makeshift hospitals, fast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_hosp...

Afaik they’ve already started with that in one the affected regions.

Yeah, I also heard that China is sending to Italy the materials they don't need anymore, since they started dismantling the temporary hospitals in Wuhan. That would be very helpful.

>temporary hospitals

were not hospitals at all, just isolation units for temp quarantine