By: CBS News
Lucia DeClerck has been getting a lot of attention lately. She celebrated her 105th birthday on January 25 – the same day she was diagnosed with COVID-19, CBS Philly reports.
Staff members at Mystic Meadows Rehab and Nursing Center in Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey told the station DeClerck was pretty much asymptomatic, but was in the facility s COVID-19 unit for 14 days.
Now, she can call herself a COVID-19 survivor – the oldest one at the nursing home, according to The New York Times, which also spoke to DeClerck.
That means the centenarian has survived two pandemics. She was just two years old, living in Hawaii, when the Spanish flu began, The New York Times reports. DeClerck has also survived two world wars, and has lived through the deaths of three husbands and the death of one of her three sons.