This flu season has been super bad. The hospital I worked at had patients lined up in the ER with no beds available for days.
I would also like to add, people who say they had the flu and got better in a few days, (unless you were tested to see if you actually had the flu), you may have just had a common cold.
It’s easy enough for most sane people to discern whether they had a mild flu or a cold for a day or two. Fever is more noticeable in flu, and others in the vicinity will have it.