Maria Mercader, CBS News Journalist, Dies at 54 of Coronavirus Complications

Celebrities are doing everything they can in order to help others amid concerns over the coronavirus.

Celebrities are doing everything they can in order to help others amid concerns over the coronavirus.

Mariah Carey has implored fans to donate to support medical staff in New York amid the Covid-19 crisis.

Mariah Carey celebrated Easter in a very special way on Sunday night (April 13). Taking to the roof deck of her New York apartment, Carey, wearing pink bunny ears and silk floral jammies, joined thousands of other New Yorkers in paying homage to the hard-working first responders who are working long hours taking care of the city's COVID-19 patients.Clapping and cheering them at sunset, Carey joined a chorus of fellow Manhattan residents in honoring the workers at 7 p.m.

LOS ANGELES — Grammy-winning singer John Prine, who wrote his early songs in his head while delivering mail and later emerged from Chicago’s folk revival scene in the 1970s to become one of the most influential songwriters of his generation, died on Tuesday, the New York Times reported. He was 73.

Adam Schlesinger, the frontman of the band Fountains of Wayne has passed away from coronavirus complications. He was aged just 51.

By Ellise Shafer

Jazz veteran Ellis Marsalis Jr. died on Wednesday after losing his battle against coronavirus.

Adam Schlesinger, co-founder of Fountains of Wayne, has died at the age of 52 due to coronavirus complications.

By Ted Johnson

Adam Schlesinger, co-founder of the band Fountains of Wayne, has been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19.

NEW YORK -- Billie Eilish, Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys and Dave Grohl opened their doors — literally — as the musicians performed from their homes for an hour-long benefit concert to raise money for those affected by the coronavirus crisis.

Mariah Carey did what no one else could do during Elton John’s Living Room Concert for America.