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102-year-old woman born during 1918 pandemic beats COVID-19 -- for the second time

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Angelina Sciales Friedman (Photos courtesy: Joanne Merola) WESTCHESTER, N.Y. - A 102-year-old New York woman who survived the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 and beat cancer has now overcome COVID-19 not once, but twice.Angelina Friedman, née Sciales, was born on October 18, 1918, on a ship bringing Italian immigrants to the United States, according to WPIX.Her mother died during childbirth and she was raised by her two older sisters until her father arrived in the country and they all moved to Brooklyn, according to Joanne Merola, Friedman’s daughter.“My mother is a survivor,” Merola told WPIX. “She survived miscarriages, internal bleeding and cancer… She and my dad had cancer at the same time.

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