Customers at this take-out window in Miami on March 20 were not practicing social distancing. Scott McIntyre/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
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In New York City, 42nd Street stands mostly empty as much of the city is void of cars and pedestrians over fears of spreading the coronavirus. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
Opinion: Remembering Some Of Those We've Already Lost To The Pandemic
President Trump, center left, speaks during a Coronavirus Task Force news conference in the briefing room of the White House on Friday, March 20, 2020. Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Pu Ying Huang (left) and Dylan Baddour walk along an empty street in Cajamarca, Peru, on March 18, while they were moving from a small hotel room to an Airbnb to ride out the country's 15-day lockdown. Pu Ying Huang and Dylan Baddour hide caption
A subway station in Midtown Manhattan is empty. The state of New York has issued a stay-at-home order as of Friday. Roy Rochlin/Getty Images hide caption
Opinion: Missing The Shared Jokes, Small Talk, Midday Laughs Of The Office
A nurse administers a test at a drive-through COVID-19 coronavirus testing station, set up by the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle. Ted S. Warren/AP hide caption
A scene from the Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece, in January. Angelos Tzortzinis/dpa/Picture Alliance via Getty Images hide caption
An ambulance backs into a parking lot on Friday at the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., which has become the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in Washington state. Ted S. Warren/AP hide caption
Opinion: 1 Unfathomable Toll Of The Coronavirus Outbreak — Dying Alone
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中国武汉的政府封锁令已经清空了这座城市的街道。 为NPR拍摄 hide caption
The government lockdown orders in Wuhan, China, have emptied the city's streets. Stringer for NPR hide caption
An employee checking flags at the Indian National Flag Production Center in the southern state of Karnataka. Manjunath Kiran/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Opinion: India's Religious Violence Doesn't Meet Its Founder's Vision
Dan Hanrahan works on his farm on October 10, 2019 in Cumming, Iowa. Hanrahan said that "the Iowa caucuses allow a rural area to have a say in the political process." Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
President Trump and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrive for a joint press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday. Prakash Singh/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Syrian refugees head northwest through the town of Hazano in Idlib province as the flee renewed fighting Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed) Ghaith Alsayed/AP hide caption
President Bill Clinton delivers a speech during Memorial Day ceremonies at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1993. Ron Edmonds/AP hide caption
About 450 Havasupai live in the remote Supai Village at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. In 2019, the tribe got broadband access for the first time. Laurel Morales/KJZZ's Fronteras Desk hide caption
Kirk Douglas salutes the crowd at the 68th Annual Academy Awards after he received an Oscar for lifetime achievement. Timothy Clary /AFP via Getty Images hide caption
President Donald Trump applauds as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during Tuesday's announcement of the Trump administration's plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the media in the briefing room at the State Department on November 26, 2019 in Washington, D.C. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption
In this July 27, 1974, file photo, Rep. Thomas Railsback, R-Ill., right, confers with chairman Peter Rodino, D-N.J., during the House Judiciary Committee's debate on impeachment articles drafted against President Richard Nixon. AP hide caption