Father and Son Medical doctors Die of COVID-19 in Florida

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Jorge A. Vallejo, MD, 89, became admitted to Palmetto Total Health center on Father’s Day and died 6 days later, on June 27, the Miami Herald reported.

His center son, Carlos Francisco Vallejo, MD, 57, became admitted to Cleveland Health center Florida in Weston on Father’s Day. He died 42 days later, on August 1.

“We loyal lost in most cases both of our anchors of our whole whole family,” Jessica Vallejo, a local TV news reporter, mentioned of her grandfather and uncle. “In my eyes, [my grandfather] became the American Dream.”

Father and son had been both born in Cuba. Jorge Vallejo became already a doctor when he, his wife, and their two sons fled to Florida in a raft in 1965, the family told the Herald. A third son became born in the US.

The family settled in Hialeah, FL. Jorge realized English and changed into certified as an OB/GYN in the U.S. He delivered quite quite a bit of babies, including eight of his nine grandchildren, the Herald reported. He worked till his wife’s death in 2005.

Carlos Vallejo, who practiced inner medication, had immersed himself in the pandemic in South Florida, one of many greatest hotspots in the pandemic.

“He became on the front traces combating COVID,” his son, Charlie Vallejo, told Fox Data. “He became treating quite quite a bit of COVID patients in the health center and in the rehab facilities, and we imagine that’s where he got the virus from on the starting set.

“He became very cautious, he would wear his cowl, he would wear his face protect, stout [PPE], dress, all the pieces, but you perceive there might be always that puny chance that you just can maybe presumably gentle contract the virus. Unfortunately, he did.”

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