[wk_end]

...it’s 12k-50k per year. So just (“just”) one order of magnitude or so.

[mkolodny]

Since June 2020, flu deaths have been in the single digits or teens most months, while covid deaths have been in the thousands or tens of thousands each month [0]. So covid is around 3 orders of magnitude more deadly than the flu.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm