Sophie Avouris was a newborn in Greece when the 1918 influenza pandemic spread through Europe. Now, at 102, she has also survived a coronavirus infection in a Manhattan rehabilitation center.
Sophie Avouris, 102, recently recovered from the coronavirus. She was a baby when the 1918 influenza pandemic spread across Europe. She lived through World War II and the Great Depression before emigrating from Greece to the U.S. in the 1950s.Sophie Avouris was a newborn in Greece when the 1918 influenza pandemic spread through Europe. Now, at 102, she has survived a coronavirus infection in a Manhattan rehabilitation center.
"She's a very talkative lady," Dr. Taimur Mirza told NPR."She's the person that will often come up to the [nurse's station] and start up a conversation with the nurse or myself. She speaks Greek only, so in my case, I use Google translate on my phone, and when she stopped doing that is when I got worried.
"The second time I spoke to her, she kept saying how sick she felt and that she couldn't even talk on the phone," Strouthides said.
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