Based on several comments like this I've seen, I guess most people saw this as a negative when he caught it (?), and while I was a little worried when it was first announced, after he recovered I always viewed it a huge positive. First, since he survived, and was over it, it meant it shouldn't be a health worry for him going forward, unlike Biden, who was already frail. Second, I thought it showed that older people could survive, and that it wasn't a death sentence no matter what the media was trying to portray. Without accurate polls, I guess there's no way to really know.
I believe he caught covid through nefarious means in an attempt to at least make him too sick to continue to run for reelection.....or worse.
But hey....I’m pretty paranoid
If they allowed medicines and allowed people to go to the hospitals as soon as they felt sick there would have been fewer deaths.