I saw news articles like that too. There was particular concern about ICU beds. Then I checked the NYT live feed of ICU occupancy and it showed that ICU occupan

I saw news articles like that too. There was particular concern about ICU beds. Then I checked the NYT live feed of ICU occupancy and it showed that ICU occupancy was barely higher than the historic average. We converted a stadium into a field hospital in NY that was never used. We sent the Navy medical ship, the Mercy to NY. It was never used. Also, hospitals were full of people who got covid, had mild or no symptoms, and went to the hospital anyways because the news terrified them. None of these comments deny the fact that a terribly unfortunate number of people died from Covid. The very first vaccines came out in July 2021, but were not widely available. Omicron was here by November.