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NJ's Own: 108-Year-Old Woman Believed To Be Oldest US COVID-19 Survivor NJ's Own: 108-Year-Old Woman Believed To Be Oldest US COVID-19 Survivor
NJ's Own: 108-Year-Old Woman Believed To Be Oldest US Covid-19 Survivor From the devastation that the coronavirus has wrought on New Jersey nursing homes comes a woman who has survived not just this pandemic but a far deadlier one more than a century ago. Sylvia Goldsholl, a 108-year-old resident at the Allendale Community for Senior Living in Bergen County, is believed to be the United States' oldest COVID-19 survivor. Born in December 1911, the Bronx native was 7 when the Spanish Flu killed 50 million people worldwide. “The oldest of four children and I was the smartest one from the bunch,” Goldsholl told News 12 New Jersey last week. “I survived everything …

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