I think that a flu study from 2019, looking at data from previous years, and assuming that mortality in the winter in Italy from is from flu, has very little to do with the death rate from influenza in the United States, now. That death rate is 0.01%

The death rate from coronavirus is between 2-4%.

Mark Twain was right: "There are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics."

People need to remember that the statistics even in this country on "flu" deaths are suspect. Deaths from pneumonia in the winter are usually counted as "flu" deaths -- whether there was testing and it was confirmed that they had it, or not. Sometimes doctors say "They had flu symptoms and then pneumonia as a complication, so it's a death from complications from flu."

Sure. Except that I had a sinus infection with flu-like symptoms, and got pneumonia. If I had died, would it be appropriate to say "Death from flu" instead of "Death from pneumonia caused by sinus infection"?

Please don't compare apples to watermelons, which is what that study is, comparing Italy in 2015 to a coronavirus pandemic now.