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'A sudden loss: A memorial to lives lost to COVID-19'

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Public radio hosts, past and present, read short eulogies to just some of the tens of thousands lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States in the months of March, April and May, 2020.

Produced by public radio veteran producer Paul Ingles and featuring the voices of Susan Stamberg, Noah Adams, Liane Hansen, Maria Martin, Al Letson, Neal Conan, Glynn Washington and others. Listen Sunday, May 31 at 7 p.m. on WRVO, on-air and online.

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