I get the same way, just so fatigued by the whole thing. My wife, OTOH, just reads and reads and reads all this stuff, and the worse the news, or the sadder the news, she has to tell me.
Well, the worst is in New York, and it's scary reading the news from there. We're in Ohio, so several hours by car from NY, and we don't have nearly the cases they have, 1137 with 19 deaths so far, out of about 10M Ohions. Geographically, we're about the same size as Austria.
However, we get daily briefs from our state governor and our state health department head, and they're painting a pretty grim picture for us. She's saying the peak here will likely be sometime in May, and where we're seeing maybe 300 or so new cases today, to steel ourselves for 4,000...6,000...10,000 new cases a day for days on end, until this passes.
People we talk to seem to be one of two extremes: it's either the end of the world and this is how life's going to be from now on, or saying it's just the flu, everybody relax already. We see friends on FB mocking the whole social distancing thing, talking about "quarantining" at a large family gathering, etc. Then my wife talked to someone yesterday (phone) who's daughter is a nurse in Michigan, the next state up, and her daughter's a nurse, and was crying because they don't have enough equipment. She said, "We're literally sending people home to die, because we can't help them."
That's probably our state in two or three weeks.
One thing that I think is helping here, though: states have great leeway individually in how they manage this. In a general sense, the federal govt gives a state money and resources, and then largely leaves them alone to deal with it. That's why testing criteria will be different from state to state.
We seem to be lucky in that we've got a governor who took this stuff seriously from the beginning, so Ohio has been a little bit ahead of the curve in that respect, but it's only a matter of time before it gets worse.