In a test performed by financial services the potential scenario is more dire than initial estimates.
The statistics are chilling: if a pandemic strikes the U.S., it will kill about 1.7 million people, hospitalize 9 million, and exhaust antiviral medications and reduce basic food supplies.
The financial services disaster scenario informed nearly 3,000 banks, insurance companies, and security firms in a recently concluded largest pandemic test of its kind.
All the scenarios are available for download.
I would think that this makes sobering reading.