My sister was recently sick with CoVid symptoms. She was very ill but refused to go to a hospital. She had 2 negative at home tests, and never went to get a PCR test. She is still feeling the effects of her illness. It’s hard to say whether or not she contracted a different virus, or CoVid. She says she was so miserable but she has a fear of hospitals after a terrible bout with C. diff about 20 years ago. She still has her cough and little energy. I guess we will never know what she really had.
I too don't like hospitals but I live alone and I knew that if I waited it would get worse. My doctor drove that point home when he said if I had waited and Covid scarred my lungs I might not be here now, or on a waiting list for a lung transplant. Scary times, and this could take months to completely recover from.