Are people still dying from Covid?
Yup. COVID deaths are trending downward, but there are still a lot happening. In fact, we still aren't back down to early COVID levels yet.
Trending down makes sense with what you’d expect with a respiratory illness this time of year. It’s unfortunately going to kill a lot of people every year probably indefinitely.
To be clear, covid is not a respiratory illness and it never has been. It's a vascular disease and it attacks the blood and blood vessels. Researchers suspect or have evidence that long covid is caused by microscopic blood clots all over the body, preventing many things from functioning normally. For example, brain fog could be tiny tiny strokes in the brain.
While symptoms may have originally manifested as respiratory, especially those who needed ventilators back when covid was acute and more deadly, it never was attacking the lungs. It was attacking the whole body.
^^ This. Spread via respiratory route =/= respiratory illness.