A reporter who saw Covid-19 coming has died
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Helen Branswell won a 2020 George Polk Award, a prestigious journalism prize, for her “relentless coverage of all aspects of the pandemic that became must-reading...”
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Jeré Longman
CANADA – Helen Branswell, a leading reporter on infectious diseases who wrote with foresight, urgency and clarity about the emerging danger of the Covid-19 pandemic, ahead of the vast majority of journalists and even many medical experts, died on Oct 13 in Ottawa. She was 69.
She died in hospital from complications of a recurrence of breast cancer, said her sister, Brenda.