A New York woman has a lot to be thankful for this holiday season. Angelina Friedman has recently recovered from COVID …for the second time! And this isn’t even her first pandemic - she lived through the Spanish flu in 1918 and just beat COVID again after celebrating her 102nd birthday.
Friedman first tested positive for the virus in March and spent a week in the hospital before heading back to her nursing home, where she stayed in isolation until she tested negative on April 20th. Her daughter, Joanne Merola, says she tested positive again in late October, but on November 17th, her “invincible mother” tested negative. She credits her mom’s recovery with her “iron will to live.”
And she’s shown that all her life. Friedman’s mother died giving birth to her on a ship bringing them from Italy to New York in 1918 and she managed to survive that pandemic. Merola says her mom has also survived miscarriages and cancer over the years. “She is not human. She has super-human DNA,” her daughter teases, adding. “She’s not the oldest to survive COVID, but she may be the oldest to survive it twice.”
Source:PIX 11
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