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Older people are counted among the group of people most at risk of developing a severe course of COVID-19 caused by the new coronavirus. The pandemic spreading worldwide has already cost the lives of tens of thousands of people from all countries of the planet and the majority of them were precisely seniors over 60 years of age. Nevertheless, the world was shocked by good news from Italy and China’s Wuhan, and even from the Czech Republic.
Contrary to doctors’ expectations, there have been numerous cases of very old grandmothers who dealt with the infection excellently and not only did they obediently not die, as the voices of scientists from the World Health Organization demanded, but they even fully recovered from the disease and, with a bit of exaggeration, hopped home from the hospital on their own.
Centenarian ladies of robust health were not even surprised by COVID
The first senior to be cured and at the same time the current record-holder
was the Chinese woman Kuang-fen Chang from the epicenter of the pandemic, Wuhan province.
Although she was taken to the hospital in a very serious to critical condition, she recovered from the infection in just six days in mid-March.
She was a full 103 years old. It should be noted that this woman was otherwise completely healthy and despite her age suffered only from chronic bronchitis, which is typical for older people, but she did not suffer from any other disease.
A mild course of coronavirus infection was also recorded in a second woman whose age approached a century. The 95-year-old Italian recovered from the disease practically on her own even after being transferred to the hospital. Given her age, doctors were afraid to put her on antiviral therapy.
They only relieved her by easing pain and supporting her breathing.
After a few weeks she no longer needed oxygen and the tests for the presence of the coronavirus also came back negative.
Similarly, a 97-year-old man from Lombardy was in the same situation, his recovery took only 14 days. At the beginning of April a woman from Prague joined the recovered seniors; she was only four years short of a hundred.
