It's not just a question of money. sure, we need more ventilators but so does every country and they are very hard to source. Then there is the staffing issue. Optimal ICU practice has a 1:1 staffing ratio, one nurse per patient, but that's 3 shifts a day. Add in medical staff, supporting hospital staff, then allow for up to 30% absence with SARS-Covid-19 and the big issue becomes staffing. If even 60% of the population becomes infected, maybe 5% of those will need ICU level support, that's 480,000 people!
Then, if you look at the illness itself, the problem isn't just viral pneumonia that requires ventilation, the problem is something called a cytokine storm, a super aggressive immune response where the body ends up destroying itself, sort of like 'friendly fire'. This is what kills people and we currently have no effective treatment for it.
The wider problem is not just Chinese wet markets, it's factory farming, swine flu epidemics and bird flu epidemics have their root cause in intensive farming, whether in China or in the rest of the world, so we'll need a whole world response to this after it passes. Bats have amazingly powerful immune systems, they protect bats from becoming ill with all sorts of viruses that have the potential to become zoonoses, infective agents that cross the species barrier and infect humans. As we increase deforestation and push into previously uninhabited areas, we increase our exposure to all these infective agents