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The city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus first began to spread, is pictured on May 14. Many Chinese cities have seen rush hour traffic return to pre-pandemic levels — or worse — after reopening, according to traffic data company TomTom. Cities around the world are trying to figure out how to avoid disastrous gridlock as residents resume travel while avoiding public transit. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
President Trump and China's President Xi Jinping, shown here in 2019, have both faced criticism for their handling of the coronavirus. Both leaders are now pushing hard for a vaccine. The U.S. has already agreed to pay a drug company more than $1 billion to produce a vaccine that's yet to be approved. Xi says if China succeeds in developing a vaccine, it will be declared "a global public good." Kevin Lamarque/Reuters hide caption
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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
Since Russia's expansive influence operation during the 2016 election, Americans' usage of social media has only increased — and drastically so, as a result of the pandemic. Caroline Amenabar/NPR hide caption
Social Media Usage Is At An All-Time High. That Could Mean A Nightmare For Democracy
Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., leaves after a virtual Senate Committee for Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing on May 12. Win McNamee/AP hide caption
Rep. Tony Cardenas, D-Calif., cleans his desk during a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing earlier this month. Greg Nash/AP hide caption
Candidate Donald Trump makes a dramatic entrance on the first night of the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland. His campaign hopes to replicate the scale of that event to demonstrate a recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
People eat outside of a restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on May 18. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Answering Your Coronavirus Questions: Global Health, Small Businesses, Silver Linings
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
President Trump delivers remarks on lowering insulin costs for seniors with diabetes on Thursday at the White House. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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'
The April 19 edition of The Boston Globe had 16 pages of obituaries. Brian Snyder/Reuters hide caption
Obituary Writer Aims To Show How Coronavirus Impacts 'All People In Our Society'
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
White Woman Who Called Police On Black Bird-Watcher In Central Park Has Been Fired
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