Booker, who had no underlying health conditions before contracting the respiratory virus, wants the public to know the virus is no joke. 

It was a homecoming that melted hearts. A father and daughter reunited with a hug after nearly 100 days apart as he was hospitalized with COVID-19.

There were cheers and tears for 40-year-old Demetrius Booker when he left the hospital on Friday afternoon, but one hug meant more than all the others.