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General News 3/30/2020 at 11:26 PM EDT

Maria Mercader: CBS News Journalist Dies of Coronavirus at 54

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Maria Mercader, CBS News Veteran, Dies at 54 Due to Coronavirus [News] Maria Mercader, whose work at CBS News helped deliver the division's breaking news from the U.S. and around the world to viewers, died Sunday due to ...
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Maria Mercader, a career journalist at CBS New who had a hand in much of the network’s breaking coverage of foreign and domestic breaking news for three decades and lately help shared talent strategy fro the News Division, died today from the COVID-19 coronavirus in a New York hospital. She had been on medical leave for an unrelated matter since the last week in February.”

On March 23, former co-worker Nick Barnets tweeted an updated on Mercader’s grim health status. He wrote, “Please keep @mariamercader in your thoughts as she’s fighting for her life on a ventilator now in New York due to #COVID19. I worked w/ her during a stint at the CBS News foreign desk in 2010-2011 & know her to be a kind & strong person. We’re all hoping & praying for you Maria!”

Veteran journalist Dan Rather tweeted, “A hard hit to the heart, news longtime colleague and friend Maria Mercader died from coronavirus. A paragon of grit and grace, she embodied the best of the @CBSNews mission. Millions of Americans learned of the world through her efforts. Now our world is less with her loss. RIP”

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