It was just the flu as the stats prove.
The worldometer stats have some problems. For several weeks they show Suffolk County NY with more positives than the five boros, Nassau and Westchester counties combined. Except the Suffolk DoH has listed far fewer positives as has the NYSDoH. Today Wmeter showed 240 positives. Suffolk County...27. Anecdotal? Sure, but it puts the accuracy of the site into a little bit of doubt.
It’s killed over 600,000 Americans and would have killed hundreds of thousands more were it not for President Trump’s quick response with Operation Warp Speed. At its peak, it was putting 131,000 Americans in the hospital and 3,500 in the grave. The only Influenza pandemic that’s killed more Americans was in 1918, and that wasn’t by much at this point.
Add to that the fact that SARS-CoV-2 and Influenza are as related to each other as human beings and snails and the “just the flu” phase looks totally absurd.