as with pretty much everything saying "X is happening in the USA" is just a false statement on the face. The country is too big. Houston has obviously not done a good job. Florida has obviously not done a good job. Even if you extrapolate Houston to Texas (which is dumb), you still have 48 states.

But the ICU bed thing is another one of those statements that is false on its face. The Dakotas (yes, plural), have no trauma centers. Those people come to Minneapolis. It's easy to social distance when there's one person per square galaxy though.