Yeah I agree the supplies are lacking and the lack of COVID-19 testing kits, and yet no signs of a vaccine of some sort (who knows how long that will take), but how about the medical staff operating at practically 24/7. There's only so much doctors and nurses working in a given shift, patients outnumbering them by a large margin with this new viral strain. Also a possibility of those same medical workers getting infected and now your staff has cut down. Number of available beds too in each facility, also taking into consideration other inpatients with medical illnesses. It's just a mess out there.
The people in China did an incredible job actually listening to the news, government, etc. to stain quarantined for so and so days. They listened and now the number of cases are down. Europeans have it bad due to their poor healthcare and government system, giving full-time treatments to the younger ones infected and letting the elderly just succumb to their illnesses. Here in the USA, it was split 50/50 it seemed early one when the virus first arrived here between people who wanted to stay out of the public life for now and do self-containment and the rest didn't really care like it was a joke and it wasn't a big deal. Now that numbers are growing with those infected and dying numbers shifted towards more on the self-quarantine group, while the rest still live their life as if nothing is happening. Well, it might be too late now because I predict there will be an exponential growth in the number of infected and deaths in the next few weeks. I hope I am wrong..
Yeah a lot of people still in heavy panic mode buying and stocking in large quantities supplies, food, etc. and not leaving anything for anyone else. Because people are doing it in mass numbers, everyone else is following suit because no one wants to be stuck without anything. This also plays a huge role and adds to the problem.