Influenza mortality out pacing covid mortality

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-general/us-flu-reaches-high-severity-status-deaths-outpace-covid
The article indicates that 6 out of 11 pediatric deaths samples were subtyped (3 were H1N1 and 3 were H3N2).  H1N1 and H3N2 were included in both the trivalent and tetravalent flu vaccines.  The CDC is recommending that everyone over 6 months old get vaccinated.  The circulating strains are apparently more virulent than previous years. In the midwest test positivity rate is over 30% (I do not think that it ever got that high for covid testing).  97% of the samples were influenza A and only 3% influenza B (55.4% H1N1 and 44.6% H3N2).
Amazingly they picked the most common subtypes to include in the vaccine this year, but they do not have data on vaccine efficacy.
The dairy workers in states with infected dairy herds were supposed to have been vaccinated with the current vaccine in order to try to prevent recombination of a human strain with the dairy virus last year, but the CDC never published any results for that effort, and they would have missed all the dairy workers being infected in states that were not admitting to having infected herds.  It sounds like the current strains are bad enough without adding H5N1 genetics to them.
I do not think that the CDC would have been stupid enough to use the attenuated virus nasal vaccines to vaccinate the dairy workers (that would have probably insured reassortment among workers already infected with the dairy virus, but anything is possible with the current dairy epidemic fiasco.
Ron Okimoto