For starters, the coronavirus is more deadlier than the flu and spreads rapidly. The mortality rate the coronavirus has it 1.3%, whereas the flu has 0.3%. While both are very different, the flu killed more people in 24 weeks than HIV/AIDS has killed in 24 years. Both are very different, but the difference between Flu and CODV-19, is we have advanced with technology and have found cures to the flu as well as flu shots, however corona is more advanced so there is still yet to be a cure