MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: And finally today, although we re not there yet, we re getting there. More than 4 in 10 people in the U.S. are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19. And although we re nearing yet another previously unimaginable milestone of 600,000 dead from COVID, the country is starting to recover, with people going back to school and work and travel and all the other things they like to do.
So we thought we would check in - maybe for the final time; we ll see - with a group of people who ve been so instrumental in helping the country cope. We re talking about faith leaders. We started connecting with three religious leaders last March, just as lockdowns began, and we ve been checking in with them from time to time. We wanted to know how they ve weathered all this and how they re doing now.