If we only knew that was true. With them recording deaths "with" covid in stead of deaths "from" covid, we will never really know.People died from covid 19 in much higher numbers than flu, initially, because covid 19 was novel. Now that it’s burned through the population, not so much.
Plus there were the lockdowns. Who knows how many died because of that.
The one thing I will say about covid over the other influenza viruses is that it is much more contagious.