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More than 50,000 Americans have died of coronavirus.

The necessary isolation covid-19 imposes has robbed the bereaved of proper goodbyes. This is how they lived — and what was lost when they died. wapo.st/3cR5Ttn
Denied a high school diploma and shut out of jobs because of her disabilities, April Dunn helped rewrite state law to make sure people like her had equal access to education and employment.

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Frank Gabrin became the first emergency room physician in the United States to die of the virus after he treated patients in hard-hit areas in New York and New Jersey.

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Bishop James N. Flowers Jr. was a pastor in Maryland known to be unwavering in his faith.

Decades before he experienced a religious epiphany, he was an up-and-coming rock-and-roll singer.

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Jennifer Arnold was a longtime costume dresser on Broadway for "Phantom of the Opera."

She worked the final performance of "Phantom" before Broadway went dark — and fell ill days later.

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Nathel Burtley was the first black superintendent of Flint, Mich.

Burtley was determined to improve the experience of minority students, using the lessons he learned while growing up in a segregated Illinois city.

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