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They Survived: Beating COVID-19 After 70

Title (Dublin Core)

They Survived: Beating COVID-19 After 70

Description (Dublin Core)

When Covid-19 cases began making the news in America, the stories were centered around nursing homes, where the population seemed especially susceptible. Day after day more reports of Covid-19 infecting and killing numerous patients and residents within these facilities painted a dire picture. And it is still dire. However, there are individuals who, despite their advanced age, survived Covid-19. This article from the AARP highlights four individuals in their 70s and 80s who suffered through serious cases involving long hospital stays and ventilators that made it through this virus. An interesting aspect of this article is every person interviewed ends their section by chastising people going out to restaurants, bars, and not wearing masks. Though they survived, they used this platform to try and convey the severity of the situation. As an 80-year-old female survivor from New York stated “This is not the flu. This is something that wants to kill you. It saps your strength and makes you feel like you prefer to die. This disease is such an unknown quantity. I cannot understand why anyone would refuse to wear a mask. It's a pandemic!” Hopefully, people reading survivor stories such as these will make people reflect on the choices, they are making for themselves and their communities.

Date (Dublin Core)

July 20, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Hallie Levine

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Kathryn Jue

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Screenshot

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2020/covid-19-survivor-stories.html
http://web.archive.org//web/20210209015139/https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2020/covid-19-survivor-stories.html

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English Government State
English Healthcare
English Public Health & Hospitals
English Food & Drink

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

hospital
nursing home
elderly
restaurant
New York
ventilator
flu

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

survivor
elderly
AARP

Collection (Dublin Core)

Healthcare
Survivor Stories

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HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

02/05/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

02/08/2021
2/18/2021
08/02/2022
09/15/2024

Date Created (Dublin Core)

07/20/2020

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Covid 19
Arizona State University

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This is a picture of a back and white drawing which depicts a wide eyed woman wearing a face mask surrounded by words reading: "Black Plague", "COVID-19", and "We Can Survive 2020-21". Kathryn Jue JOTPY Portfolio Linked Data Interactive Resource

This item was submitted on February 5, 2021 by Kathryn Jue using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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