THE VILLAGES, Fla. – Neighbors in one part of Sumter County had a reason to celebrate after one of their own beat COVID-19.
Tony Perry was recently medically cleared by doctors after he tested positive for coronavirus following a trip to New England he took with his wife earlier this year.
The two returned home on March 7 and it wasn’t until March 13 that Tony Perry noticed he wasn’t feeling well. “Symptoms just got worse, temperature went up, and it was harder to breathe,” Tony Perry said.
Shortly thereafter, Tony Perry tested positive for the coronavirus. “I had a really big suspicion from the moment he was sick that it was COVID-19,” his wife Susan Perry, a nurse and vice dean for the College of Nursing at USF, said.