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Surviving COVID: Inspiring Stories of People Who Beat the Coronavirus

See and hear how older victims triumphed over the illness in these uplifting videos


As the pandemic sweeps the nation, older Americans have been hit hardest by the coronavirus. About 95 percent of the deaths caused by COVID-19 have occurred in people 50 and over. But amid the tragedy, there are inspiring stories of triumph and survival. New treatments and heroic health care workers have combined to help victims overcome the disease that can attack the body from head to toe. Recovery isn't easy, and symptoms can linger for months, but these patients found ways to bounce back from their devastating bouts of illness. See and hear these survivors tell their own stories, in their own words, of how they beat the coronavirus.

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