CNN Reporter Breaks Down After Devastating Covid-19 Report - Jezebel

Covid-19 has killed over 370,000 Americans, resulting in incalculable grief for families and medical staff, as well as journalists covering the carnage daily.

It’s a grief that overtook CNN correspondent Sara Sidner during a live broadcast Tuesday morning, leaving her tearful as she relayed the tragedy of it all.

Sidner was reporting on a Southern California family who had to hold a funeral for their mother in a parking lot after she died of covid-19.

The report explored the ways in which covid-19 is particularly devastating to people of color in the United States, who are more likely to be essential workers and more likely to live in multi-generational homes, two factors which increase the likelihood of transmission.

“These families should not be going through this,” Sidner continued.