This chart is about covid in the US though so I suppose the global population isn't really the yardstick you want to use. US population in 1918 was around 100m

This chart is about covid in the US though so I suppose the global population isn't really the yardstick you want to use. US population in 1918 was around 100m [1]. If WWI deaths took place over 4 years it'd be around 30k per year [2]. With that as the basis the US covid death rate is quite a bit worse than WWI in terms of absolute numbers. [1]: https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=kf7tgg1uo9ude_&hl=en&dl=en#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=population&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=country:US&ifdim=country&hl=en_US&dl=en&ind=false https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=kf7tgg1uo9ude_&... [2]: Assuming the numbers in the chart are accurate, and that the deaths were evenly distributed across the 4 years