Misleading title: they killed the same absolute number of Americans, but our population now is over 3 times what it was then, so COVID is less than 1/3 as deadly.
For those complaining about the comparison, they did at least mention it:
>>> Comparing events that happened more than a century apart has its perils. For instance, the population of the United States in 1918 was a third of what it is now. So as a percentage of the national population, the Spanish flu deaths still has the lead on Covid-19.
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 28.3 ms ] thread>>> Comparing events that happened more than a century apart has its perils. For instance, the population of the United States in 1918 was a third of what it is now. So as a percentage of the national population, the Spanish flu deaths still has the lead on Covid-19.