I'd also add that actual influenza is nothing like a cold and if someone had a fever (a cold doesn't give you that) they sure as hell will be getting tested in this covid climate. Negative for corone? Test for actual flu
If anything, more tests are being done
In any other year, if I got sick with fever, chills and bedridden, I'd assume I have the flu and not go out. Not bother with a test. In this year if that happened, I sure as hell would schedule a test!