60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl says she battled coronavirus

Lesley Stahl.
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60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl revealed on Sunday night that she was hospitalized after becoming infected with the coronavirus.

"After two weeks at home in bed, weak, fighting pneumonia, and really scared, I went to the hospital," she said. "I found an overworked, nearly overwhelmed staff." Stahl praised the doctors and nurses who treated her, saying each one was "kind, sympathetic, gentle, and caring from the moment I arrived until the moment days later when I was wheeled out through a gauntlet of cheering medical workers. In the face of so much death, they celebrate their triumphs." 


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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.