The link you gave for "typical flu seasons" is difficult to read, because it's disaggregated by age. This CDC link gives the overall numbers by year: https://ww

The link you gave for "typical flu seasons" is difficult to read, because it's disaggregated by age. This CDC link gives the overall numbers by year: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html. 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.