This doctor and his family got the coronavirus when they relaxed rules along with Florida's reopening

When Florida started to loosen its stay-at-home orders and reopen, this ICU doctor started visiting with family members. Soon, coronavirus cases started appearing among them.

Dr. Andrew Pastewski, the ICU medical director at Florida's Jackson South Medical Center, has been treating coronavirus patients at his hospital since the pandemic began. But when Florida started to loosen its stay-at-home orders and reopen, he did what a lot of Floridians did.

"We opened up," he said."We allowed family to come over and visit."Soon, coronavirus cases started appearing in his family. A cousin, a brother, then his own wife and kids, and finally Pastewski himself contracted the virus."I had a mom and grandmother drive themselves into my hospital, and only one drove home," he said.Pastewski warned against a sense of complacency and the erroneous notion that the virus is only affecting the elderly in nursing homes.

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