The title would be more useful if it made it clear that this is a doctor's POV, not a patient's. (Not least because a patient spending 7 weeks in an ICU would likely be sedated for most of it.)
Yeah, heaven forbid you have to read an article to find out what it says. Doesn't matter though, HN has already dismissed this article as state fabrication, cos "China" so you don't need to read it anyway.
I read it, but I almost didn't, because I've already read half a dozen "OMG I survived corona" stories from patients. I was (positively) surprised that it was actually the perspective of an ICU doc in Wuhan.
Also, "HN" (who?) hasn't asserted anything like what you're saying. If that piece is propaganda, it's pretty well done.