FOX NEWS - A 100-year-old great-great-grandmother in the United Kingdom isn't letting the novel coronavirus take her down, overcoming her battle with COVID-19 after a more than two-week hospital stay, her family says. Download the FOX 5 DC News App for Local Breaking News and Weather Rose Heeley, of Sheffield, fell ill with the virus in recent weeks and was hospitalized for 18 days.
The 100-year-old – who has reportedly survived scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough, diphtheria, the flu, and two heart attacks over the years – received a standing ovation when she was discharged from Northern General Hospital in Sheffield last week.