>Thus, the risk of dying from Spanish flu was >8 times higher than the risk of dying from COVID-19... https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/229/6/1928/7642231
Also flu may have recently passed covid for current US deaths https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2025/02/18/...
obviously in the middle of a pandemic more people will be dying of whatever the pandemic is.