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As a new strain of coronavirus (COVID-19) swept through the world in 2020, preparedness plans, masking policies and more public policy changed just as quickly. WVXU has covered the pandemic's impact on the Tri-State from the very beginning, when on March 3, 2020, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine barred spectators from attending the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus over concerns about the virus, even though Ohio had yet to confirm a single case of COVID-19.

Gone Too Soon: Memorializing Those Lost To COVID-19

91.7 WVXU | By 91.7 WVXU

Published May 21, 2020 at 9:16 AM EDT

Monday, May 25 at 12 p.m.

On this very somber Memorial Day weekend, we hope you’ll join us today at noon for a very special one-hour presentation. Gone Too Soon: Memorializing Those Lost To COVID-19, presents short eulogies of 100 of the over 100,000 American lives lost to coronavirus.

Presented by public radio voices past and present, you’ll hear from Susan Stamberg, Noah Adams, Neal Conan, Glynn Washington, and others