I never witnessed more people IRL actually hospitalized and dying though. I think it was just presented that way in the news.I absolutely believe this! And I believe all the people who instantly were sick with COVID when Trump declared state of emergency it wasn't a virus at all it was mass panic. They all ended up in the hospital struggling to breathe because that's what they were told were the symptoms of it and they put them on ventilators and of course died which poured gasoline on the pandemic fear that there was actually a virus out there in the air floating around to kill them. If there was something transmissible I think it was a signalling molecule telling your cells to dump toxicity. If you weren't afraid of it, you'd let the symptoms come and go.
My husband looked up the death statistics and they were very underwhelming despite the fact that many deaths were incorrectly attributed to covid.