101-Year-Old Italian Man Survives Two Pandemics
Move over, Chuck Norris. We just found the toughest man alive. A 101-year-old Italian man, known only as “Mr. P,” who outlasted a global influenza outbreak as a baby, has also beaten COVID-19.
The Rimini resident was born in 1919 during the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 30-to-50 million people. CNN reports that “Mr. P” tested positive for the novel coronavirus last week. After only one week in the hospital, he was released and went home on Thursday, March 26th.
I don’t know if the “P” in “Mr. P” stands for his last name or “Pandemia,” the Italian word for pandemic. And I don’t know why this centenarian survived a disease that has already killed thousands of people in his country. He either has excellent genes with super immunity or he’s extremely lucky.
