By Ted Johnson Chris Livesay has joined the staff of CBS News as a foreign correspondent based in Rome, where he already has been reporting on the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy.
Livesay has previously reported around the world for outlets including NBC News, PBS NewsHour, PBS Frontline and NPR News. He began reporting for CBS News at the height of the outbreak in Italy.
In March, Livesay was the first reporter for an American TV network to go inside an ICU in Italy, when the country was at the peak of its struggle with the pandemic and a shortage of medical supplies.
He also reported from northern Italy, where cemeteries could not keep up with the number of deaths, and this week reported from Venice on how nature is actually rebounding amid
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