Yeah, if you were smart, if you got a sore throat during a pandemick, you'd immediately go see your doctor.
Some were in hospital for a week? The guy would never be admitted to the hospital only if his oxygen levels were below 80, and that's in bad shape. That's why all the folks died in hospitals. It takes time for that oxygen level to come down, it's before the crisis you take action.
Once you get flu/cold symptoms you go to the doctor for treatment because of the pandemic, don't sit and wait to die like these folks did and those that only took action when it was necessary to go to the hospital.
You've been propaganized in your thinking, "if I get a cold/flu like symptoms I do nothing"......till I am at death's door then I react.
You should have been propagandized to seek treatment even if it didn't work, worth a try, better than ending up dead in the hospital as most did.