Yep. Early detection makes for better outcomes and smaller fatality rate.
The answer is that with early detection, and keeping the virus numbers low, the health care network can be kept free for caring for the cases that do come through.
And ICU level care cannot cure the virus but can reduce fatalities.
- If someone is witness to the start of the fire, they’re going to call the fire department who will mobilize all resources available to a small area -> fire is contained quickly and with minimal loss of life or property
- If the fire starts in a remote area with nobody around for miles, it will get bigger and avoid detection until it becomes an imminent risk to people. At that point, the same resources will be spread across a larger area. As the wildfire grows, the wind caries embers and sparks other fires miles away, making the situation worse.
Obviously if you suffer from preexisting health issues, especially cardiopulmonary issues, you're far more likely to develop pneumonia, primary or secondary, or otherwise succumb.
[1] This page equivocates Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome with pneumonia: https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/007192.htm
[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197121...