A grandfather and his adult son, doctors in Florida, died after contracting COVID-19.
Dr. Carlos Francisco Vallejo, 57, supposedly inflamed through one of his patients and five members of his family circle have become ill with a coronavirus, adding his wife and father, Dr. Jorge A. Vallejo.
Dr. Jorge, 89, was a widower in 2005 and Dr. Carlos, an internist who operated on the front line with up to 76 patients, adding up to citizens of 3 nursing homes, provided his attention.
The two citizens of Hialeah were admitted to the hospital on June 27, however, Jorge, a retired obstetrician and gynecologist, died six days later at Palmetto General Hospital, where Dr. Carlos was head of the board.
A grandfather and his adult son, doctors in Florida, died after contracting COVID-19
Dr. Carlos Francisco Vallejo (left), 57, supposedly inflamed through one of his 76 patients in 3 nursing homes. The 3-year-old father looked after his father, Dr. Jorge (pictured right, before his retirement), 89, and both were admitted to a hospital in Florida on June 27.
Carlos, who is a father of three, lost his war with the virus on August 1 after 42 days in intensive care at the Cleveland Florida Clinic in Weston.
“We have essentially lost the two presenters of our entire family,” CBS4 News reporter Jessica Vallejo told the Miami Herald. “To me, [my grandfather] the American dream.”
Dr. Carlos his uncle and Dr. Jorge his grandfather. Dr. Jorge, who fled Cuba to Florida with his wife and children, gave birth to eight of his nine grandchildren.
She gave birth to Cuban sauce icon Celia Cruz and also excelled locally for giving birth to the smallest baby in the United States 28 years ago, which weighed less than a pound.
“It made me feel God,” Dr. Jorge told the Miami Herald in 1992, referring to the birth of Baby Zascha.
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