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Judy Woodruff:
This week the country hit a grim milestone, more than 500,000 deaths in the United States from COVID-19.
We take a moment now to remember five remarkable individuals who lost their lives to this pandemic.
A man of science and faith, the Reverend Dr. Ernest Spencer Ward was born in Liberia and came to the U.S. for college to study physics. For nearly 30 years he worked at IBM, while raising a family with his wife, Laura. At age 54, he felt the calling and returned to school for his doctorate in divinity, eventually opening his own church in Rhode Island.