https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23028036
Typical flu seasons: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/health_policy/influenza-and-pn...
Covid-19 death counts as of ~2 weeks ago: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
In the US, three times as many people have already died of CoVID-19 as die from influenza in a normal year.
The number of deaths from CoVID-19 continues to rise, and nobody knows what number it will eventually reach. With a 0.5% mortality rate and an R0 of 2.5, the expected death toll (before herd immunity is reached) would be ~1 million people in the US, or the equivalent of 30 years of influenza deaths.
2015-2016
Flu: 7,961
Pneumonia: 131,858
All: 1,769,940