When it was new, the "Spanish Flu" (influenza A subtype H1N1) killed as many people as covid killed in 2020, in a far younger, healthier population. Now people

When it was new, the "Spanish Flu" (influenza A subtype H1N1) killed as many people as covid killed in 2020, in a far younger, healthier population. Now people have immunity, so even though H1N1 is still around, it's not as deadly as it was in 1918. So while it's true that covid was more deadly than influenza in 2020, that's not because covid is inherently more deadly, but simply because people weren't immune to it yet. Now that we have a vaccine, and a significant number of people who've had the disease, covid death rates are much, much lower. Currently about 250 per day in the US, an annual rate of less than 100k per year, not much worse than the flu. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-deaths-7-day?tab=chart&country=~USA https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-deaths-7-day?...