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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
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
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
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
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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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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