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Last month 90-year-old Geneva Wood was infected with the novel coronavirus and she survived despite doctors saying she wouldn’t make it.
Would contracted COVID-19 at the Life Care Center of Kirkland, a nursing home in Washington.
It became the first place in America to have a major deadly outbreak of the virus.
Wood’s family said she had just started recovering from a stroke before contracting the virus.
But then the coronavirus spread throughout the nursing home, infecting Wood and 80 other patients.
At the time nobody realized the virus was spreading because this was before social distancing and stay-at-home orders had become the norm.
When Wood was rushed to the hospital, the 90-year-old was well aware her lungs were filling with fluid.
She said she knew her life was about to end.
Her final request was to see her family.
Her doctor agreed and her children were called to see her one last time.
However, little did they know Wood’s body would fight the virus.
Toward the end of March, Wood tested negative for the virus.
Now Wood is back home with her family.
Her daughter Katie Neidigh says some people have been writing off the elderly as those who can be sacrificed to the virus for the sake of others or for the economy.
Neidigh says she wants those people to know that nobody should get to choose who gets to live or die and that the world could use the wisdom of the elderly.
Posted – 4.8.20