- The average age of death during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic was 28 [1].
- 70% of U.S. COVID-19 deaths are age 70 and above [2].
These are very different pandemics, and it's not clear what comparisons between the two actually tell us.
[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-commemoratio...
[2]: https://www.pnas.org/content/117/36/22035