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108-Year-Old Bergen Nursing Home Resident Believed To Be Oldest COVID-19 Survivor In US 108-Year-Old Bergen Nursing Home Resident Believed To Be Oldest COVID-19 Survivor In US
108-Year-Old Bergen Nursing Home Resident Believed To Be Oldest Covid-19 Survivor In US 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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by Jerry DeMarco
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Allendale Rescuers Free Nurse After Jeep Tumbles Down Embankment Allendale Rescuers Free Nurse After Jeep Tumbles Down Embankment
Allendale Rescuers Free Nurse After Jeep Tumbles Down Embankment A nurse headed to work at an Allendale nursing home escaped with nothing more than an arm injury early Friday after her Jeep tumbled down an embankment and landed on its side in a few inches of water, police said. The 42-year-old RN from Ridgewood was still in her scrubs, a stethoscope around her neck, when Allendale firefighters removed part of the roof and got her to safety after the 7:20 a.m. crash, responders said. Elexis D. Friedrich said she was headed into work at the Allendale Community for Senior Living near southbound Route 17 when the crash occurred in the parking lot. After th…

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by Jerry DeMarco