When his brother first caught the novel coronavirus, Mark Valentine did not think he was suffering too much.

“He said, ‘I don’t think it’s going to be a big deal,’" Mark Valentine told The Washington Post on Sunday.

Medical scans showed the coronavirus infection had caused pneumonia in his right lung, Mark Valentine told The Post.

Not long after Phil Valentine was admitted to the hospital, the Tennessean reported, he and his family began thinking differently about the vaccine.

“I changed my mind as soon as I saw what was happening here,” Mark Valentine told The Post.

Even after he tested positive for the coronavirus, Phil Valentine and his family questioned the value of getting a vaccine when the politicians and public figures they respected had not advised it.

The family also learned that most of the people enduring life-threatening covid-19 infections at the hospital had not been vaccinated, Mark Valentine told The Post.

After sharing the story of his brother’s ordeal in the hospital, Mark Valentine told The Post that dozens of WTN-FM listeners began writing to the family to say they have decided to get vaccinated