So far, COVID-19 has a higher death rate among confirmed deaths/illnesses than confirmed deaths/illnesses for the flu.
For the flu, the CDC seems to be lumping estimated flu and pneumonia deaths together, which would make the flu number look larger.
How do you think most of the COVID19 patients are dying? (PS pneumonia is usually caused by the flu, hence when they are linked). And we didn’t have test kits widely for COVID19 and are not testing much in general, so again the rate will be higher than it really is because we are not widely testing.