Coronavirus Update: 90-Year-Old Grandmother Pulls Through COVID-19 After Near-Death Experience

Geneva Wood, a 90-year-old resident of Washington State, had become one of the most remarkable stories in the battle against the COVID-19 virus. She proved that there’s life after the virus — even at 90, an advanced age where most would have succumbed to complications.

Wood was transferred to Harborview Medical Center from The Life Care Center in Kirkland, where she was living. She had shown signs of coronavirus—fever, cough, and shortness of breath. The senior had also been recovering from a stroke, which caused her to lose the ability to walk temporarily. According to Fox News, she also couldn’t talk and use her right arm properly.

Wood’s children had been devastated when they heard of the news. Cami Neidigh, one of Wood’s children, shared her thoughts on the matter. She said she would not believe a virus could take her mother out when she managed to come back from a devastating stroke.

That was too much to hope for because the virus had almost always claimed the lives of people over the age of 65 — especially when they have underlying medical conditions. However, there are a lot of recoveries already being reported in the news.

More people from all over the world had managed to recover from the virus, proving it can be beaten., Newsweek reported. A tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University revealed that more than 50,000 people have managed to beat back the virus after being infected.

As fast as the virus spread, there had been people who managed to beat it back instantaneously. The public cases have since risen to 392,427, according to Corona Tracker. Of that number, about 103,392 people have managed to recover from the disease.

Wood received the best news of her life so far when she was declared virus-free. The hospital staff entered her room without masks, signifying that she was already non-contagious, and gave her a sign saying she was free of the virus.