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by sarabande 2334 days ago
I'm not an epidemiologist. Anyway, I looked up the most recent CDC flu death estimates for 2018-2019[1]:

34157 dead from 35520883 infected, let's see how much hire a 2% corona virus mortality rate is above the normal flu mortality rate in the US:

>>> .02 / (34157 / 35520883.) 20.798596480955588

About 21 times higher.

[1]https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html