[SmokingJoe]

43. He’s on the coronavirus beat. I suspect he got infected and died:

Now just why would you say that? Have people stopped dying from the causes that people have been dying from for hundreds of years because of coronavirus?

[Zhang Fei]

[Now just why would you say that? Have people stopped dying from the causes that people have been dying from for hundreds of years because of coronavirus? ]

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Because reporters covering a given subject presumably have to meet with the people dealing with the subject matter. In the case of this pandemic, that presumably means doctors and other medical personnel as well as politicians who have to do a fair amount of public-facing work, thereby creating a high risk of infection.