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by mkolodny 1647 days ago
During the pandemic, the CDC has been also been counting deaths with the flu [0]. So we do have an apples to apples comparison. And covid has been around 3 orders of magnitude more deadly than the flu.

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