For comparison, these are the official weekly death counts for the flu for the 2010s in the U.S.
How deadly was the flu in 2019? - Graphically Speaking
We might wonder whether these are the right numbers, given that the CDC counts “pneumonia” deaths separately, and these are reported counts rather than, you know, estimates from this and that.
But it seems reasonable to compare reported COVID deaths to reported flu deaths, with the understanding that both counts are underreported and undercounted and we can’t know everything.
As a sanity check we can see that this WaPo graph of the same information looks the same
