When looking at the population over 65, one gets similar death rates for COVID-19 (according to the CDC) and this flu vaccine (according to its manufacturer), around 0.6 %.
Defense.gov News Photo 110426-A-7597S-183: U.S. Special Operations service members with Special Operations Task Force South board two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters following a clearing operation in Panjwa'i district in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, on April 25, 2011. Source: Wikimedia.
Links to the documents :
https://www.fda.gov/media/119870/download
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html#box
When looking at the population over 65, one gets similar death rates for COVID-19 (according to the CDC) and this flu vaccine (according to its manufacturer), around 0.6 %.
For persons 75 to 80 years of age in the US, the death rate from all causes is below 0.5 % : https://www.statista.com/statistics/241572/death-rate-by-age-and-sex-in-the-us/
Erratum. The last stat is 5 %, not 0.5 %. In fact, even for people 65 to 69 years of age, it’s between 1 and 2%.
This makes more sense when considering that the tests for this flu vaccine lasted 6 to 8 months, not a year.