We will never know the “real numbers”. 5% of people who have symptoms and think they have it and are able to be tested come back positive. So what? Tests typically confirm that around the same number of people who believe they have strep throat actually have it, but most are given antibiotics for their viral infection anyway because that is what they want. The deaths from this have been exaggerated by probably at least 2 to 1 in most locations. My brother-in-law was on hospice care for an inoperable cancerous brain tumor. They never tested his body for coronavirus but he was counted as “presumptive” by CDC guidelines. Even deaths by extreme physical trauma have been counted.
But even with all this exaggeration, the following chart based on reported deaths shows that in this country and most other countries around the world that this thing has basically run its course. It doesn't mean that you can't still get it, but it does mean that in countries where it ran through the population despite all the nonsense that the vulnerable low hanging fruit have mostly already died.
