I was thinking of stuff like the Spanish flu: >Thus, the risk of dying from Spanish flu was >8 times higher than the risk of dying from COVID-19... https://

I was thinking of stuff like the Spanish flu: >Thus, the risk of dying from Spanish flu was >8 times higher than the risk of dying from COVID-19... https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/229/6/1928/7642231 https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/229/6/1928/7642231 Also flu may have recently passed covid for current US deaths https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2025/02/18/flu-deaths-may-have-surpassed-covid-deaths-nationwide-for-first-time-since-start-of-pandemic-early-cdc-data-suggests/ https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2025/02/18/... obviously in the middle of a pandemic more people will be dying of whatever the pandemic is.