Survivor. That's what Sylvia Goldsholl, 108, calls herself.
After living through both the 1918 flu pandemic and current coronavirus pandemic, the label is fitting.
Goldsholl, who lives at a nursing home in Allendale, New Jersey, has fully recovered from coronavirus after being diagnosed with it last month, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said at a news conference on Thursday.
That might make her the oldest person in the state to recover from the virus, according to CNN affiliate News 12 New Jersey.
"A tremendous life, a tremendous spirit, and a tremendous show of strength," the governor wrote in a tweet celebrating Goldsholl.
Goldsholl was seven years old when the 1918 flu -- which killed more than 50 million people globally -- hit.
"I survived everything because I was determined to survive," she told News 12 New Jersey in an interview conducted over video chat last week.
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