There were about 980 deaths per day in March 2022 from COVID-19 in the United States.
Normal flu deaths per day in an average year are 98.
COVID-19 remains at least ten times more deadly than influenza as Omicron becomes dominant.
There were about 948 deaths per day in 2020, and about 1,310 per day in 2021.
So far in 2022 deaths per day are 1,726 through March.
Case counts are increasingly unreliable as mass self-testing, which usually goes unreported, becomes more commonplace.
