Angelina Friedman, 102-Year-Old, is ‘Invincible’. She first tested positive for COVID-19 back in March.
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A woman from New York who lived through the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 has now triumphed over the novel coronavirus — twice.
Angelina Friedman, whose remarkable recovery from COVID-19 made headlines earlier this year, has survived her second bout with the respiratory illness after celebrating her 102nd birthday, according to her daughter.
“Not only has she beaten COVID at 101, she’s beaten it at 102,” Joanne Merola told WPIX.
Merola said she received a call from the North Westchester Restorative Therapy and Nursing Center, where her mother is currently living, in late October “to tell me she had tested positive again.”
The news came just six months after Friedman was first diagnosed with coronavirus, a disease that has proven especially dangerous for adults over the age of 65.
“She had symptoms — fever, a dry cough,” Merola recalled. “They thought she might also have the flu.”
As staff and residents at the nursing home were getting sick, Merola said older residents were put in isolation.
She continually got updates on Friedman and received news that her “invincible mother tested negative” on Nov. 17.
Friedman, who Merola said has “an iron will to live,” was moved out of isolation and back into her room after a second COVID-19 test that yielded negative results.
“She’s not the oldest to survive COVID, but she may be the oldest to survive it twice,” Merola said. Read more from Health.
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