101-year-old New Yorker born during Spanish pandemic defeats coronavirus

A 101-year-old New Yorker recovered from a coronavirus. She was born during the Spanish pandemic, and later also defeated cancer. The publication shared the details Daily Mail.

Angelina Friedman was born aboard a passenger ship carrying immigrants from Italy to New York during the second wave of Spanish flu in 1918. During childbirth, her mother died.

Over the course of her life, Friedman overcame Spanish flu and cancer, she also had miscarriages and sepsis. Now she has recovered from the coronavirus.

At 101, she outlived her husband, 10 brothers and sisters.

After the mother died, her two sisters took care of the girl. Upon arrival in New York, they found their father and settled with him in Brooklyn. This was told by the daughter of Friedman Joan Merola.

Angelina married Harold Friedman. Both of them had cancer. “She and my father had cancer at the same time. She survived. He didn't survive, ”said Merola.

Friedman is the last survivor in the family: her sisters and brothers have died, and she is still full of strength. “Everyone in the family lived to be at least 95 years old, except for one uncle. My mother survived. She's not human. She has superhuman DNA, ”said Merola.

Today, Friedman lives in the North Westchester Restorative Therapy and nursing Center on the Mohegan Lake in New York.

On March 21, she was taken to a hospital to undergo a small medical procedure and was diagnosed with COVID-19. She spent a week there before returning to a nursing home. On April 20, she finally did a coronavirus test and he showed a negative result.

Merola says her mother suffered from a fever, but she never had respiratory symptoms. She has not been able to visit her mother since February and says that Friedman is almost deaf and they cannot talk on the phone.

On April 24, the nursing home shared a photo of a cheerful patient: “Let me introduce you to Angelina, our 101-year-old resident who defeated COVID-19, she is doing great!” - says the caption under the photo.

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In the spring, Angelina was crowned prom queen at an event at a nursing home. Nurses say Friedman has done incredibly well with the virus. “They tell me that she's doing great. She got to her feet and is looking for wool to knit, ”said Merola. She says she would like to tell her mother, “Go on, Mom. You will outlive us all. "

New York continues to be the epicenter of the virus outbreak in the United States. As of Tuesday morning, April 28, the state recorded more than 291 thousand cases of COVID-19 and more than 17 thousand deaths.