at 102, he recovered from Covid-19 for the second time

After experiencing World War II, cancer, the Spanish flu … Angelina Friedmna has come to the end of Covid-19 twice.

Angelina Friedman, the invincible centenary? Born in 1918 on a boat carrying Italian migrants to the United States, this woman has gone through everything: the so-called “Spanish flu” pandemic, World War II, cancer – at the same time as her husband is there. did not survive – and sepsis.

It has also twice resisted the new infectious disease circulating around the world, causing the deaths of over 1.4 million people, Covid-19.

This retirement home resident in upstate New York was first infected in March. The virus caused him to have bouts of fever for several weeks before disappearing without a hangover, CNN reports. Seven months later, in October, she was again positive for infectious disease.

Sacred “queen of dance”

“She had several symptoms: dry cough, fever” until the virus evaporated again, her daughter, Joanne Merola, tells the American media. “My invincible mother tested negative” on November 17th.

These new trials have not affected the joie de vivre of the centennial, the last survivor of a family of eleven children. Described as “dynamic” by her nursing home staff, Angelina Friedman devotes her days to one of her favorite hobbies, knitting. Last year she was also crowned “prom queen”.

Angelina Friedman is not the oldest person to survive Covid-19. In April, Bill Lapschies, a 103-year-old WWII veteran, overcame the disease shortly before his 104th birthday, CBS News reported. “But she is certainly the oldest to have survived twice!”, Points out the centennial daughter.