The hospitals are not overrun yet, at least here, but if this blows up I expect them to be. As of last night, there were over 300 hospitalized cases. This is on top of the normal emergencies they handle all the time. Stopping the optional procedures will have freed up enough beds for that, but since it seems to take a two or three week stay in the hospital if you have a bad case, those beds are going to be in use a while if the victims survive.
Trump is falling into the same trap that Hong Kong did, thinking that if social distancing gets the rate of new cases down, then it's all over. It's not. It's not going to be over until 60% - 80% of the people in this country have gotten the virus and survived and are immune. Otherwise, there is still too big of a population that doesn't have the anti bodies in their blood and someone who has it can still give it to lots of people, restarting the trend up.
There are two keys to keeping the survival rate up.
1) - Spreading the cases out (i.e. keeping the current number of people who have the virus at a low enough number that the medical system can handle them). To do this, it will take six months to 18 months for us to get to the 60% mark.
2) - minimize the severity of the cases. People seem to think that one strand of the virus will kill you. Nope, nothing is that deadly. However, the initial number of strands that you get are critical to determine if your body can fight it off as a slight case of the flu, or no symptoms, or if you die.
Keep social distance and you only breath in a few, they start multiplying, but the immune system sees them, creates antibodies and they are destroyed and you are immune. You have a mild case or no symptom case and are immune.
Sit next to a guy who has it at the bar for 4 hours one night, breath in hundreds of the strands and it can overload the immune system and you have a sever case that may kill you as all those strands begin their exponential growth.
If you have time to read, check out "Executive Orders" by Tom Clancy. Its a story of a biological attack on the US using Ebola. His president actually cut off travel at state lines to keep it from spreading, but in their case it was only 3 days from exposure to symptoms and this seems to be much longer. Interesting book.