Only because testing was increased by a factor of 10,000X times.
Re: "the vaccines are proven to reduce death and hospitalization"
That can only be proved by a massive double blind study. One third of the infected did not even know they were sick. At least a hundred million Americans have been vaxxed with an experimental drug, even though they had no obvious risk factors. That is not public health. It is Russian Roulette.
In addition, two years before Covid started, Medicare started a national effort to get every American over age 65 vaxxed for 36 pneumonia variants. What percentage of the Covid vaxxed elderly were also vaxxed for pneumonia? I will wager that was statistically significant for those elderly who had mild or no symptoms after a Covid infection.
We are living through an episode of medical mass hysteria.
We have no idea what the long term consequences of mRNA vaccines will be.
Until we do know, I will not get one.
I have had every other routine vaccination available.
In fact, I have had sixty years of annual flu vaccinations, which has a proven statistical relationship to Covid prevention and symptom moderation.
So your argument, with no evidence, is we’ve had huge numbers of undiagnosed, asymptomatic flu cases.
I guess whatever helps you rationalize your position…
That can only be proved by a massive double blind study.
That’s pretty much what we’ve had. The vaccinated and unvaccinated were equally exposed to the virus and equally treated regardless of vaccination status.
We have a mountain of results from very diverse populations and healthcare systems all over the world. How would your double-blind study work and what would it add?
You’re free to believe what you want, of course, but you can’t deny the evidence.