A New York woman who was born during the Spanish flu in the early 1900s has recovered after contracting coronavirus, the second pandemic of her lifetime.
Angelina Friedman, who lives in a nursing home in Lake Mohegan, in Westchester County, was hospitalized in late March for an unrelated procedure when she tested positive for coronavirus.
The 101-year-old cancer survivor had a fever for several weeks spent in the hospital and then in isolation at the Northern Westchester Restorative Therapy and Nursing Center. However, on April 20, she tested negative for infection, according to WPIX-TV.
“My mother is a survivor,” daughter Joanne Merola said, referring to her mother’s victories over ailments. “She has super-human DNA.”
One of her first requests? Yarn to start a crochet project.
Merola had a message for her mother, who she hasn’t been able to speak to on the phone because Friedman is nearly deaf.
“If my mother could see this, I’d say, ‘Keep going, Ma,'” Merola said. “‘You’re going to outlive us all.'”
Friedman was born on a passenger ship while emigrating from Italy to the U.S. in 1918.
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