Georgia Woman Gets Discharged From Hospital After Beating COVID-19 And Will Be Able To Celebrate Her 100th Birthday!
Here’s some great news to kick off your Tuesday! A Georgia woman named Maude Burke was recently released from the hospital after a 17 day battle with coronavirus. According to Fox 47, the 99-year-old was the oldest COVID-19 patient to be discharged from Phoebe Putney Health System in Albany, Georgia.
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A video shared by local news outlets showed medical workers lined up against the halls of the hospital in Albany to cheer on Maude Burke as she left the facility following treatment.
“Her strength and determination are amazing, and we wish her well as she continues to recover,” Phoebe Putney Health System wrote on Facebook. “Thank you for being an inspiration, Ms. Maude!” Burke will now be able to celebrate her special birthday very soon, happy and healthy.
This comes shortly after a 101-year-old Italian man was released from the hospital last month after recovering from the novel coronavirus. The man, who has been named only as “Mr P,” was born in 1919, during the Spanish flu pandemic, which is estimated to have killed between 30 million and 50 million people worldwide.
“Mr. P made it,” Gloria Lisi, the deputy mayor of the Italian city of Rimini, said at the time. “To teach us that even at 101 years the future is not written,” she added.
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