Father-and-son doctors died of the coronavirus within weeks of each other in Florida hospitals

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Connor Perrett)
,INSIDER•August 12, 2020

A father and son in Hialeah, Florida, died within weeks of each other after they were both hospitalized with COVID-19 in June, the Miami Herald reported on Tuesday.

Dr. Jorge A. Vallejo died on June 27. The 89-year-old retired obstetrician and gynecologist had been hospitalized with COVID-19 at Palmetto General Hospital since Father's Day on June 21, the Herald reported.

His son, Dr. Carlos Vallejo, 57, died five weeks later, on August 1, after spending 42 days in the intensive-care unit at the Cleveland Clinic Florida. Before he fell ill, he had been caring for nearly 80 coronavirus patients, including many at nursing homes, his family told the Herald.

"He really was a hero to so many people. I didn't even want him to go to the nursing home and the hospitals because I was terrified," Gisselle Vallejo, Carlos' daughter, told the Herald. "He wanted to be loyal. It was like he was available for them 24/7. He really was the true definition of a hero. I knew that when COVID started, that he was going to be a hero."

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