[remarkEon]

Italy has more hospital beds per person than the US, 3.18 (2017) vs 2.77 (2016 ... no Wiki data for 2017).

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

[Laforet]

It might be better to look at beds available near the major disease clusters rather than a country as a whole, given that patients are unlikely to be transported around the country to fill the beds.

[remarkEon]

True, though I suspect that to make the picture in the US remarkably worse.