Coming a little late to this thread, so I’m sure someone has already pointed this out, but you’re citing statistics from last flu season. The flu has been virtually non-existent this 20-21 flu season. Last I checked, there hadn’t been a single flu death in Texas. (Edit: might have been thinking about pediatric only...can’t remember exactly why I was looking that stat up last month. In any event, the number is incredibly low). (Edit x 2: if I’m reading this correctly, there have been only 136 flu hospitalizations this season - since September - in the entire country).
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/)
My understanding is that’s because the measures taken to reduce the spread of Covid are particularly effective against the flu. I suspect there’s also a little reporting error in there, with some flu or flu/Covid combo going into the strictly Covid column.