RE: Why are these people even going to the doctor?
FEAR FACTOR.
Ordinarily, if we did not have Covid, people would simply brush it off as a mild illness.
But we are not living in ordinary times, people want to make sure it’s not the novel Coronavirus that is several orders of a magnitude more transmissible and deadly.
Fear factor.
And likely because someone else is paying for it.
Nothing like having skin in the game to help you make smarter choices.