Just for numbers....
the following was googled from the CDC Statistics. For the 2018-2019 inFluenza season 35.5 million people in the U S were believed to have been flu infected with +/- 490,000 requiring/seeking hospitalization and 34,200 flu attributed deaths.
For the 2019-2020 inFluenza season the CDC says there have been 280,00 hospitalizations with 16,000 deaths to date, though there is no mention of whether the current Corona virus is part of those numbers.