Dutch woman is first person to die after getting COVID-19 twice
An 89-year-old Dutch woman became the first
person to die after getting COVID-19 twice.
The woman, who had a rare type of bone
marrow cancer, had a compromised immune system from the treatment she was receiving
for the disease.
However, experts still say her body should
have been able to fight off the second bout of the coronavirus because she
would have had antibodies from the first, and the cancer treatment “does not necessarily result in life
threatening disease.”
The patient was admitted to hospital with
COVID-19 this year, and was released after five days later when she only had
fatigue as a symptom.
She began chemotherapy for her cancer two
months after her coronavirus fight, but developed a fever, cough and had
difficulty breathing.
Subsequent tests revealed that she had
COVID-19 again and there were no antibodies in her system when tested twice. She
died two weeks later.
