Covid-19 overtakes 1918 Spanish flu as deadliest disease in American history

Misleading title: they killed the same absolute number of Americans, but our population now is over 3 times what it was then, so COVID is less than 1/3 as deadly.

No - COVID killed 4-5M, The Spanish Flu killed 50-80MM last time I checked.

For those complaining about the comparison, they did at least mention it:

>>> Comparing events that happened more than a century apart has its perils. For instance, the population of the United States in 1918 was a third of what it is now. So as a percentage of the national population, the Spanish flu deaths still has the lead on Covid-19.