111-years-old Maria Aulenbacher has become the oldest person in South Carolina to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Aulenbacher also lived through the pandemic in 1918.
According to CNN, she is among the oldest people in the world to become vaccinated after receiving both doses. Aulenbacher spent most of her life in Germany and only moved to the United States when she was 100-years-old.
"I drink wine, I drink beer, I eat what I like," She said, as she told CNN the key to living so long. She told CNN getting the vaccine did not hurt for her. "We kind of felt like it's a civic duty, everybody has to get this vaccine," her daughter Birgit Dickerson said. "If we ever want to get over this we all have to go and have the vaccine."
Aulenbacher was a young girl during World War I and the 1918 influenza pandemic. She became a widow in her 30s, more than 75 years ago.
Aulenbacher lives with her daughter and son-in-law near the Blue Ridge Mountains, and two of her grandchildren and a great-grandson live nearby.
Yet she lived in Germany for most of her life and moved to the United States shortly after her 100th birthday. Her family affectionately calls her "omi," which means "grammy" in German.
Being a role model, she expressed her delight at achieving such feat, as she jokingly hope to live as old as Methuselah, a biblical figure who lived to the age of 969.
"I'm very happy to get the shot," she said
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