They could be short on staff at one hospital while laying off staff at another. This would be especially expected since any particularly infectious disease would show up in pockets, thus effecting individual hospitals a lot while not effecting others at all. Logically they would just send the patients to other hospitals, but for many reasons that's not happening. And since the media's agenda is to exaggerate the threat as much as possible they will straight up lie and say "hospitals are overwhelmed" and when called out on it they will just claim "we didn't lie, there are SOME hospitals that were overwhelmed".

I think the best way to explain to one of the sheep that this pandemic is a scare tactic is to point out that if it were real we would be on a hiring binge for medical workers. We would have doubled and tripled the staff by now just to have them on standby for when the shit hits the fan. The opposite is happening and that proves that the scale of the problem is utter bullshit.