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Italy: 101-year-old influenza survivor beats Covid-19

by elmar on 3/29/20, 9:39 PM with 24 comments

• by laxd on 3/29/20, 10:25 PM

  Article doesn't mention if he was actually infected by the spanish flu or if he just survived the times. Anywho, fun happy news, worth the 5 seconds. Maybe not hn material.

  Edit: Free from memory of a spanish flu documentary I watched the other day: "As I entered the train, the conductor fell dead on floor. As the journey went on, I saw two more passengers die. Then the train stopped. The loco pilot had died, and I walked the rest of the way home."

  Spanish flu was some heavy shit. With young healthy people dying the first day of symptoms.

• by yurlungur on 3/29/20, 10:38 PM

  I think some people are just blessed with great genes and great health/immune system throughout their lives. There are stories of 100+ yos who smoke, who eat typical comfort food everyday, who drink in moderation but consistently etc etc, whose lifestyles are what we basically understand as negative for your health but they are unaffected.

• by hanoz on 3/29/20, 10:51 PM

  Surely by now we should have enough data to make some serious progress on why this virus has such wildly different effects on different people.

• by giovan-ni on 3/29/20, 11:41 PM

  101-year-old Italians are making the news so often lately:

  https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/12/home-office-...

• by Ericson2314 on 3/29/20, 10:15 PM

  Forget young people, Mr. Thiel should get some of his blood.

• by melling on 3/29/20, 10:13 PM

  Perhaps because she had the Spanish flu? That was a theory

• by officialjunk on 3/29/20, 10:33 PM

  surviving is one thing. to what degree was the permanent lung damage? https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/here-is-w...