98-Year-Old Woman Becomes The Oldest Patient To Recover From The Coronavirus
As concern continues to grow due to the latest news on the deaths from the coronavirus, new reports reveal that some people have actually recovered from the deadly infection, including a 98-year-old woman.
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According to The New York Post, the woman — identified by her last name Hu — developed a fever last month and was treated at the makeshift Leishenshan Hospital in the Chinese city of Wuhan with her 55-year-old daughter, who also was infected with COVID-19. Although Hu had been listed in critical condition with a fever of 104 degrees Fahrenheit, she was given anti-viral medications along with other treatments and made a full recovery.
The woman has been discharged from the hospital in Wuhan — making her the oldest person in the world to survive the deadly illness, according to the news site citing the Xinhua news agency. As of right now, it is not clear how doctors determined that the woman no longer had the illness. However, it was noted that as of Sunday, almost 200 coronavirus patients had been released from the hospital in China.
As we previously reported, 3,000 people have died, the vast majority in mainland China, of the illness. It has infected over 88,000 people around the world.
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