An Indiana woman got a Covid-19 vaccine shot on her 100th birthday
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On her 100th birthday, Mildred Grassman got flowers, candy, money — and her second shot of the Covid-19 vaccine.
“It means everything to me,” Grassman said just after getting the last shot at Ascension St. Vincent Evansville in Indiana. “At my age, I didn’t want to get the disease.”
It also means that eventually, Grassman will be able to get back to what she loves — playing cards and bingo and being with her friends — once most people are vaccinated.
“She’s very social,” her daughter, Mary Carl, said of Grassman. “She’s never met a stranger,” she said, so the pandemic has been rough for Grassman, who has her own condo-like home at an independent living facility for seniors in Evansville.