As the State of Texas continues to reopen and Governor Greg Abbott loosens restrictions on businesses of all kinds, doctors are still telling people to stay vigilant.
Dr. Terak Naguib is an internist at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center and said safety should still be at the forefront of everyone's mind.
"The battle between being scared and cautious is a thin line," he said. "But we have to be cautious and we have to remember always it is a respiratory spread. It is the cough, it is the sneeze."
He said coughs and sneezes may not seem like much, but they can have an impact that goes far beyond six feet.
"The more we learn about it, the more we discover that it is the respiratory route of transmission where people can cough or sneeze and the sneeze and cough travel, and it travels much more than the six feet that we think of, it travels more like 20 feet."
This danger can be compounded even further by a fear of visiting the hospital.
However, Dr. Naguib said it's always safer to have your medical problems addressed sooner rather than later.
"Two weeks ago, I received a phone call from a wife of one of my older patients," he said. "that she received a call from one of the urgent care facilities and said she needs to go to the emergency room, and she called me on the weekend and said I cannot do that."
COVID-19 patients aren't the only ones who need to be wary of the disease, according to Dr. Naguib. He addressed the dreaded "COVID 15" as well.
"It is a consistent theme that everybody has gained five pounds or more, because staying home you don't do activities," he said. "You have to do something and if you aren't cautious you eat more and most people do and for an underlying condition like congestive heart failure, gaining weight is an issue."
Congestive heart failure can be caused by narrowed arteries or high blood pressure, which causes the heart to not pump blood as efficiently.
Dr. Naguib says to wear a mask, eat right, do your best to stay active, and if you have to get medical attention, don't hesitate.