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OR: 103-Year-Old Spanish Flu Survivor Receives Coronavirus Vaccine By Jake Higgins Feb 01, 2021 10:08 AM A A A 103-year-old woman from Eugene who survived the Influenza pandemic back in 1918 has received her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The Spanish Flu pandemic killed at least 50 million people and infected 1 in 4 around the globe. Bernice Homan was born in 1917 and was just an infant at the time. When a doctor visited the family because of the flu he told Homan's mother that Bernice wouldn't last the night. Over a century later and Homan has far exceeded that doctor's prediction. By the time Bernice Homan gets her second dose of the coronavirus vaccine, she will be 104-years-old.