She was admitted last month.
Pignataro had shortness of breath but thankfully she responded to treatment. So Tina is a remarkable patient with a remarkable story, said Dr. Srikant Polepalli of Staten Island Hospital. She s 100 years old, she was born in 1920 right at the end of the Spanish flu and now she s here living through the COVID-19 pandemic and she s very soft-spoken but is a very strong fighter.
Pignataro wasn t the only one discharged. Her younger sister Marie was also hospitalized for COVID in the same field hospital.