Canadian health reporter Helen Branswell dead at 69, remembered as 'pretty kickass' journalist | CBC News - 咪咕视频

The Sherbrooke, Que.-born reporter died Tuesday, according to an article from STAT, the Boston-based health and medicine news site she had worked for since its founding in 2015.

Her sister, Brenda Branswell, confirmed to the outlet she died of complications from cancer. She had moved back to Canada last year, after a decade in Boston, to be closer to family, STAT reported. [...] She wrote 161 stories that year, beginning on Jan. 4, 2020, when she reported on a mystery pneumonia outbreak in China that could be the result of "a new virus, and perhaps even a new coronavirus."

Her final piece, a contribution to STAT's Morning Rounds newsletter about the growing measles outbreak in Pennsylvania, was published on Oct. 2. [...] ## Related Stories

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