My father, Ed Palkot, has a unique perspective on the current coronavirus pandemic.
He's sheltering in place now in his suburban New York home. And he's 106. He survived the last major global pandemic.
That one infected 500 million people around the world and killed some 50 million, 675,000 in the U.S.
American cities were especially hard-hit, including Pittsburgh, Penn. The city of just over half-a-million at the time saw 4,500 deaths from the virus and 24,000 reported cases. And Dad was one of them.
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