I've only heard of two people "dying of" the coof in my IRL sphere, both second hand accounts, both sick old people already on death's door just waiting for the ole reaper to give em a little nudge.

I don't personally know anyone that's even gotten sick with it, although I'd be shocked if I haven't encountered anyone that was either minimally symptomatic or asymptomatic but still poz.

Granted, I got a flu-like thing early January after contact with a person in a shop that also got a flu-like thing from a guy that had just come back from a motorcycle tour of central China...