In New South Wales, Australia the medical sector had 1000 ICU bed capacity in January. When covid hit, it was rapidly expanded and currently over 2000 ICU beds are available.
At the same time all elective surgeries got banned (e.g. hip replacements etc) because some of those would end up in ICU.
At the peak of the outbreak NSW used 100 of those 2000 beds. Currently only about two dozen ICU beds are occupied. About 1% of capacity.
The real problem in the USA and most other Western countries is that there is no clear strategy to defeat the virus. The actions being taken are mostly consistent with "flatten the curve and wait for herd immunity", but that pretty much guarantees crippling economic damage and mass death.
Herd immunity through vaccine or infection is the only rational strategy for a disease like C19. There is no vaccine, and possibly will never be a vaccine. Sorry to be a realist.
Sure, the war isn't over, but it's at least plausible this will be effective for a long time. Versions of it are working in China and a number of other countries that were able to stop the spread in time.
If there is never a vaccine, then there will be harder decisions for all these countries in the future about how to deal with countries that failed to defeat the virus. It seems fine to worry about that later.