BOSTON – Centenarians have always been a rare breed. Now they're an endangered species. The 100-plus crowd — those most venerable of human beings — is succumbing rapidly and heartbreakingly to the coronavirus pandemic.
Entire limbs are being lopped off family trees, and their wisdom and lore are dying with them. “We’ve been really upset,” said Thomas Perls, a professor of medicine and geriatrics at Boston University who directs the New England Centenarian Study. “We’re seeing a higher rate of people passing away ...
cutting these incredible lives shorter." “For families, they’re the pride and joy, the anchor, the link to the family’s history.