Demand in many sectors will continue to exceed supply in times of a pandemic. With the number of SARS-CoV-2 positive cases on the increase, and the number of deaths going up as well, the concern is whether national and state health systems will be able to cope with ever-rising demands– for testing packages, for hospital beds, ventilators, why, even masks and hand sanitisers At a time when the disease did not have a name, and much less by method of character, in mainland China, the quickly climbing numbers went far beyond the capacity of the country’s popular industry (where a healthcare facility was built in record time), and the health systems struggled to cope.
