According to this, in 2016, 80,000 died from the flu. There were 900,000 hospitalized. That is about a 9% death rate. However, it is reasonable to assume that the vast majority of cases are not reported. But if there were 3,600,000 cases of the flu that year, that would be a 2.25% death rate.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/26/health/flu-deaths-2017—2018-cdc-bn/index.html
That's not what the CDC says about the mortality rate in the US.
Even if it's true Rush keeps saying that the mortality rate of the flu is FAR higher than the mortality rate of corona. That's flatout wrong.
There are more like 30 million - 40 million cases of the flu. Younger and healthier people generally deal with it at home with pain relievers, vitamins, bed rest, etc., and likely never go to a clinic or doc, let alone a hospital. The overall death rate is typically between 0.1% and 0.2%, which means 30,000 - 80,000 deaths/year. Those going to hospitals are, generally speaking, those who are very young or old who have under developed or compromised immune systems.
FWIW, if the Kungflu infects 40 million people and kills 2% of them, we are looking at 800,000 deaths - 10 times worse than the worst “normal” flu year. Since it appears to be more contagious, more lethal and without a definite medication to cure it, this thing is going to be pretty bad (but I simply cannot imagine that it will be anywhere near as bad as even the Spanish flu of 100 years ago, much less the Black Death, which killed about 1/4 - 1/3 of Europe a FEW times over the centuries).