What do you mean by “CDC is hardly tracking the flu”?
There’s the FluView weekly report which states there have been 123,000 flu tests performed since the end of September so far: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm
There’s the FluView Interactive page tracking national, state, and local outpatient and hospitalization rates for Influenza: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/fluviewinteractive.htm
They have maps, graphs, raw CSV data downloads, state-by-state breakdowns. What is missing from this year that they’ve done in previous years?