DETROIT A Metro Detroit doctor who knows the coronavirus (COVID-19) from every angle -- as an expert who treated it, a patient who survived it and a son who lost a father to it -- is sharing his important perspective on the threat. He warns the threat is still very present, even though cases are on the decline. Having already treated many of the first patients to face COVID-19 in Michigan, he was realistic about what that meant. I said, OK, I guess Im back.He recovered, but the virus wouldnt leave his family unscathed. As his family mourns, Kaatz warns the threat is not gone.

DETROIT Michigan State coaches Tom Izzo and Mel Tucker paid a virtual visit to a doctor who ended up on a ventilator after treating patients with the coronavirus (COVID-19). Dr. Scott Kaatz survived his battle with the coronavirus, but his father did not. Kaatz cared for some of the first COVID-19 patients at Henry Ford Hospital while he was fighting the virus. His father, Dick Kaatz, a longtime funeral director in Michigans Thumb, was also hospitalized with the coronavirus. Ive seen that as a physician.