It's always been just a cold. The scientists in China (funded by America through Fauci) were working on combining a virus found in bat crap with the common cold virus (coronavirus). They had been working on it since 2014 and in 2019 it was ready for the World Economic Forum, Johns Hopkins University, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the UN and anyone else involved in Event 201, to be released on the world. Event 201 was a meeting of all of the above people to discuss how to handle a world epidemic. It was held in Oct 2019, two months before they released the virus on the world.
So it always was a common cold that was kicked up a notch so that it killed people.