People eat outside of a restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on May 18. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Health care workers protest hospital understaffing and insufficient personal protective equipment last week outside Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Calif. Ronen Tivony/Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via Getty Images hide caption
Trump Team Killed Rule Designed To Protect Health Workers From Pandemic Like COVID-19
Memorial Day weekend at Robert Moses State Park on Fire Island, N.Y. As the pandemic continues, Harvard's Dr. Ashish Jha says, mask wearing, social distancing and robust strategies of testing and contact tracing will be even more important. Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Nearing 100,000 COVID-19 Deaths, U.S. Is Still 'Early In This Outbreak'
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For the first time, Twitter has directed users to a fact check of a tweet by President Trump. Denis Charlet/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Video of Amy Cooper calling the police Monday on a man has gone viral on social media. The man says he asked Cooper to put her dog on a leash in New York's Central Park. Christian Cooper via Facebook/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, shown here in February, decried the man's death, saying, "All I can come back to is that he should not have died. What we saw was horrible and completely and utterly messed up." Steve Karnowski/AP hide caption
Hundreds of people gathered in front of the Glynn County Courthouse on a recent Saturday in May to demand justice for Ahmaud Arbery, who was shot and killed in February in Brunswick, Ga. Emma Hurt/WABE hide caption
Arbery Shooting Sparks Racism, Corruption Questions About Georgia County
With physician offices not seeing patients with COVID-19 symptoms in April, Timothy Regan said he had little choice when Denver Health directed him first to its urgent care facility and then to its emergency room. "I felt bad, but I had been dealing with it for a while," he says. Ethan Welty for KHN hide caption
Montgomery's Capri Theatre, seen on March 22, was closed because of the coronavirus. Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed says the city health system's capacity to manage the crisis has hit unsustainable levels. Taylor Hill/Getty Images hide caption
With months to go until the 2020 election, the presidential transition process is already underway. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption
Traders wear masks as they work in their posts at the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, the first day of in-person trading since the exchange closed in March because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Brendan McDermid/Reuters hide caption
Christian (left) and his wife Monze (right) were laid off from restaurant jobs in mid-March and not qualified to receive unemployment because they are undocumented immigrants. Liz Hafalia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images hide caption
An airboat from the South Border Patrol Station in Laredo, Texas, leaves to patrol the Rio Grande River near the Laredo checkpoint. Suzanne Cordeiro / AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Workers prepare takeout orders May 1 in Houston. For more than two out of three unemployed workers, jobless benefits exceed their old pay, researchers say. That discrepancy can raise awkward questions for workers, bosses and policymakers. Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Six Flags is preparing to reopen its Frontier City theme park in Oklahoma City on June 5, requiring visitors and staff to wear face masks. Business Wire hide caption
A pharmacy tech pours out pills of hydroxychloroquine May 20 at Rock Canyon Pharmacy in Provo, Utah. After a study found COVID-19 patients using the drug were dying at higher rates, the World Health Organization announced it would suspend its clinical trial. George Frey/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A voter registration volunteer in Philadelphia in 2018. New registrations had surged going into 2020 but have dropped off dramatically as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Dominick Reuter/AFP via Getty Images hide caption