No, they didn't. It didn't actually happen except on television.
And the people who died in hospitals in the first few months, not in tents, were murdered by their doctors. Ventilation is unnecessary for most Covid pneumonia cases and everyone knew that while the CDC was still pushing them.
And so many people died of cancer alone because of the fearmongering CDC and the cruel nurses and doctors and hospital administrators who cared more about protocol than about patient care.
You have no clue of the real world. My wife has been a cancer patient for 3+ years, and her cancer clinic is as busy as before covid arrived. Visit nearby hospital treating covid patients and learn something. Sitting at keyboard posting on FR will not teach you what is going on in the world.