A reporter who saw Covid-19 coming has died

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. Her death, at a hospital, was from complications of a recurrence of breast cancer, her sister Brenda Branswell said.