Pablo Sánchez, at 75 and with long-standing health problems, was probably days or weeks from receiving a coronavirus vaccine. But he caught the virus before he found an appointment for a shot.
Sánchez, a longtime Washington correspondent and award-winning producer for Univision who lived in Bethesda, died of complications from covid-19 on Feb. 24.
“It’s almost like those soldiers who die in the last battle in the war,” said his friend, José Pertierra.
By Sánchez’s own accounting, it was his fourth encounter with death — and the only one from which he could not return. The first three occurred during major surgeries decades earlier, when doctors cooled his body to cadaverous temperatures and stopped his heart to repair major arteries weakened by an inherited disorder called Marfan syndrome.
