The death toll of especially the early variants was huge, and it created the largest spike in disability(vis fatigue etc) and cardiovascular disease in recent history.
Sorry, I was just joking. Remember, it was 2019, you know, a hundred years ago, when they talked about a "mysterious virus from China. I remember the times of the swine flu, around 2009, then reading the news and thinking "meh, it will probably be something like that". Big mistake.