101 Years Old Italian from Rimini, Italy Beats Two Pandemics

A 101-year-old patient known as “Mr. P” who tested positive for Covid-19 was discharged from Infirmi Hospital in Italy. Despite the virus known to be deadlier to older adults, he’s body miraculously recovered from the disease.

Given the progress of the virus, it could not even be called a ‘story like many’ if it were not for a detail that makes the life of the person returned to their loved ones truly extraordinary.
Mr. P., from Rimini, was born in 1919, in the midst of another tragic world pandemic. He saw everything, hunger, pain, progress, crisis and resurrections. Once over the 100-year-old barrier, fate has put this new challenge before him, invisible and terrible at the same time. Last week, Mr. P. was hospitalized at in Rimini after testing positive for COVID-19. In a few days, it became ‘history’ for doctors, nurses, and the rest of the healthcare personnel who treated him.
A hope for the future finds itself in the body of a person over a century old, as the sad chronicles of these weeks mechanically tell every day of a virus that is raging especially on the elderly.
Yet, Mr. P. made it. The family brought him home yesterday evening, to teach us that even at 101-years-old, the future has yet to be written.
– Gloria Risi, Vice Mayor of Rimini on the local newspaper ReminiToday

According to Italy’s National Institute of Health, 86{d6d81a2c4d119734c84cd4a4a28057965fd8dae288f4dfcadc17d8910b5998ed} of deaths in the country were patients older than 70 years old.

Mr. P was born in 1919 amid the Spanish Flu pandemic that killed 20-50 million people. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1918 (H1N1) Pandemic was fatal to people younger than 5 years old.

References:
Forbes
cdc.gov

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