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Hello and welcome to the excerpt. I'm Dana Taylor. Today is Sunday, January 5th, 2025.

Five years ago this month, the COVID-19 virus started ravaging populations, changing life here in America and around the globe.

Many shrugged it off initially.

It wasn't until March 9th when the CDC, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, declared it a pandemic.

In Quinter, Kansas, a small rural town of about 1,000, and in surrounding Gove County,

it devastated the population, killing one in 132. That made Gove the deadliest county in the U.S. in December of 2020. Five years on, have residents recovered, or have they, to hear more about

the lasting impacts of coronavirus and a

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