Joseph DitsSouth Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND — Dr. Peter L. Yu was doing what he’s done for three decades at Memorial Hospital on Oct. 22, making rounds to see patients, when he fainted.Taken to the emergency room, the initial test for COVID-19 came back negative as he was admitted to the care of his colleagues.On the next day, a second test came back positive. But Yu, a passionate and generous doctor with a jolly nature, told an old classmate from medical school in the Philippines on the phone, “I’ll be out of here soon.”His condition wavered. Pneumonia took grip. So did kidney failure from his...…Joseph DitsSouth Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND — Dr. Peter L. Yu was doing what he’s done for three decades at Memorial Hospital on Oct. 22, making rounds to see patients, when he fainted.Taken to the emergency room, the initial test for COVID-19 came back negative as he was admitted to the care of his colleagues.On the next day, a second test came back positive. But Yu, a passionate and generous doctor with a jolly nature, told an old classmate from medical school in the Philippines on the phone, “I’ll be out of here soon.”His condition wavered. Pneumonia took grip. So did kidney failure from his...WW…
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