When Giacopini was two years old and living in Connecticut, her mother died of the flu. It was 1918, and the flu pandemic would go on to kill about 675,000 Americans. http://apne.ws/ClxgV8s pic.twitter.com/tc6DXXdZIN
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When Giacopini was two years old and living in Connecticut, her mother died of the flu. It was 1918, and the flu pandemic would go on to kill about 675,000 Americans. http://apne.ws/ClxgV8s pic.twitter.com/tc6DXXdZIN
Sent to her ancestral homeland of Italy after her mother’s death, Giacopini eventually fell in love with a fighter pilot who then died in the war. She left Italy after being warned that Americans could be targeted by Mussolini.http://apne.ws/F5pG6w1
She spent the rest of her life in Connecticut and California, where she became a fierce advocate for her daughter, who was born with spina bifida. http://apne.ws/HrCY3OU pic.twitter.com/NaZRzJE1w2
Despite being vaccinated, Giacopini caught COVID-19 earlier this month at age 105. Had she not caught the coronavirus, “I think my mother would have been around quite a bit longer,” said her daughter, Dorene Giacopini. “She was a fighter.”http://apne.ws/2JRJWAZ
The U.S. death toll from the Spanish flu pandemic was eclipsed this month by the number of Americans killed by the coronavirus. At a time when the world had one-quarter of the population it does now, the flu pandemic killed 50 million people globally. http://apne.ws/F9i6Juz
RIP. 105 is one hell of an innings.
105 is a really good run. Godspeed ma’am, Godspeed.
Come on, she was 105 (!!!) years old. Most people die between the age of 70 and 90. Everything can kill you when you are that old.
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