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CBS News veteran Maria Mercader has died Sunday from complications of COVID-19, the first media executive to lose her life because of the pandemic.
The network confirmed that Mercader, 54, died in a New York hospital. A former producer who spent her career at the network, she was director of talent strategy at the news division.
Mercader, who lived in Manhattan, had been on medical leave from CBS since late February. She was a cancer survivor who had undergone numerous treatments and surgeries that left her among the most vulnerable to the coronavirus.
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CBS News executive who contracted the coronavirus dies
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