A new bet. This covid thing isn't going to stop anytime soon. So definitely we are going pass Influenza this year unless the officials hide number or something like that.
Our time is not the early 1900s when influenza could kill tens of millions of people. While influenza could still be life-threatening, it already has a lot of available medications, proven and tested medicines which could cure all types of influenza.
COVID-19, on the other hand, is not that life-threatening especially to young, active, and healthy individuals but due to its highly contagious nature, it could easily infect vulnerable people and kill them. The bad thing with COVID-19 is that it doesn't have a cure yet. Although there are already vaccines, it might still take years before finally inoculated to the majority of the world's population. And the vaccines are primarily done in urgency and therefore not as perfect as they should be.
So I think COVID-19 deaths will also surpass death from influenza this year.