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, at one time she defeated cancer. The publication shared the details Daily Mail.

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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 had miscarriages, sepsis. Now she has recovered from the coronavirus.

At 101, a woman outlived her husband, 10 brothers and sisters.

When 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. They both had cancer. “She and her father were struck by cancer at the same time. She survived. He’s in — no,” Merola said.

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

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, a centenarium was tested for coronavirus, and it showed a negative result.

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