Something fishy went on last year with the flu, for sure, but I'm almost positive flus weren't just being counted as covids.
As I have mentioned, I do lab work in a hospital laboratory. I run many tests, including flu and covid tests every shift. Until last fall, I usually would see a few positive flu tests every shift during flu season. This year, I think I saw two the entire winter...BUT...Our doctors & NPs order covids AND flu tests on almost every patient with those type of symptoms. So if you get a flu test, you likely also get a covid test, and vice versa. Those tests are run on different swabs, and different analyzers, with different methodologies. If the positive flu tests were showing up as positive covid tests, they would also still pop positive for the flu...again, I saw 2 positive flus all winter, amongst countless positive covids. That doesn't jibe.