Maybe, or maybe because PCR testing is horribly inaccurate, all the flu cases in 2019 and 2020 just got rolled in to the Chinavirus stats?
Those tests false positived on any and everything, according to the current CDC Director own words. She literally said that a person never known to have COVID, but had potentially been exposed to someone who could have had COVID, but also was not proven to have it, would show positive 12 weeks later on the PCR test.
She used that as a reason the CDC no longer wanted PCR tests to be used to diagnose COVID.