Kind of reminds me of the “Day 223 of the Iran Hostage Crisis” stuff we used to see.
Main difference between covid-19 and the Flu is that the new virus is new, people have no resistance from previous exposures, so it is more contagious. The death % numbers are bogus because we just don’t know how many had the milder version of covid-19 and chalked it off to just sniffles and got better and never reported to anyone. Add those people to confirmed cases, and that makes a bigger divisor to the death count. Even president Trump said this during the CDC visit.
It is remarkable that that so few under age 50 have died among the confirmed covid-19 cases. Which adds to above argument that death percentages are bogus.