A Miami-Dade nurse practitioner and mother of a 2-year-old said she was deliberately exposed to COVID-19 by a Miami physician at their place of work. She has filed a lawsuit against him, the medical office and the hospital that owns the medical office.

The doctor she worked with, she said in the lawsuit, refused to allow the staff at their Biscayne Boulevard medical office to test for COVID-19 without his approval. When she questioned him about a cough he had, she says he got in her face and breathed on her and told her “If I’ve got it, now you’ve got it.”

Venise Jean-Baptiste and her son, Abel, got it — COVID-19 — she said in her lawsuit. Jean-Baptiste said she suffered blood clots and pulmonary embolisms as a result of the contracting the virus, the lawsuit says.

“I called my family and said, ‘This is what I want you to do with my son … just in case if I don’t make it, because I don’t think I’m going to make it,’” Jean-Baptiste told WPLG Local 10.