Oregon veteran, 95, recovers from coronavirus, family says: 'Pretty hardcore'

A 95-year-old veteran who lived through the Great Depression and World War II just beat the coronavirus.
Bill Kelly of Oregon, already facing underlying medical conditions, including kidney disease, a congenital heart condition and high blood pressure, is recovering at home these days, The Oregonian reports.
“Grandpa Bill’s pretty hardcore,” his granddaughter, Rose Ayers-Etherington, 41, told the newspaper.
In a Facebook post earlier this month, Ayers-Etherington revealed her grandfather’s diagnosis but added he was “kicking it in the butt.”
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“In his words, ‘I survived the foxholes of Guam, I can get through this [coronavirus] bull—-,'” she wrote. “He has strong mental resolve. He has seen tough times and knows how to get through them.”
He started getting sick with a low-grade fever on March 15; he was diagnosed with the coronavirus on March 17.
Kelly spent the first week in isolation, and his family said they treated Kelly “like a leper.”
The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus climbed past 3,500 Tuesday, eclipsing China’s official count.
There are more than 825,000 global infections and more than 40,000 deaths worldwide.
“It’s real and it’s here and it needs to be respected,” she wrote.
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