Early on in the pandemic, in the spring of 2020, David Orzech saw COVID-19 coming for him.

He told his son Josh, “This is what’s going to take me out.”

His dad’s attitude, remembered Josh, was not a surrender to the virus, but a kind of wary respect for it. He was anything but reckless about it — isolating from friends and loved ones, keeping the window in his room open even when it was cold outside and the heater was running. “He was always conscious of it,” said Josh.

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