Primetta Giacopini lived a life of adventure: She fell in love with a World War II fighter pilot, escaped Italy during the war, built a life for herself in Connecticut. Then this month, at age 105, her life ended the way it began: in a pandemic.http://apne.ws/Hy919NL
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The 1918 pandemic lasted decades. My grandma always told my mom to wear a scarf over her nose & mouth something most of us do during flu season. Def getting flu vaccine soon
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It’s us history
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We will surpass that 675,000 this weekend

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We are already past that and will reach 700,000 very soon.
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Wow!
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