... you're better off staying home and treating yourself, and that's why hospitals are sending people home.
The medical treatment centers know who are the high-risk patients. Most patients are not high-risk and they shouldn't be taking up the hospital beds from seriously ill patients. Two years ago they couldn't turn people away, so everybody came to the hospitals, and some got a lot more infected than they would have been if they had stayed home.
Your friends were properly treated. I hope they really did quarantine and stayed home for the proper number of days. The infectious time is in the first couple of days of contact, mainly when most people don't know they're carrying the virus yet. My experience is that you can give yourself the home-test and it might even tell you negative - but could be a false reading. You might be infected, but you don't have enough of the virus to trigger the "positive" reading. That's what happened to me.
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