Workers and day laborers gather outside shuttered stores Monday in New Delhi. Once the world's fastest-growing major economy, India posted its steepest decline in gross domestic product in 24 years. Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
United Airlines planes are parked at gates last month at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. The airline announced it is eliminating many change fees, and Delta Air Lines and American Airlines quickly followed. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption
Flaviane da Conceição, 40, a self-employed house cleaner, poses for a photo at her home in the Cidade de Deus favela on July 29 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A single mother of three, she applied for government emergency aid at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and it helps her support her family. Bruna Prado/Getty Images hide caption
People stand in line for free coronavirus testing this month at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. The daily number of new coronavirus cases reported in the U.S. has remained stubbornly high. Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Virtual medical appointments are more common since the coronavirus pandemic began. But without physical exams, doctors may miss certain diagnoses and miss out on building relationships with patients. filadendron/Getty Images hide caption
The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa makes up a sizeable portion of the city's population of roughly 100,000. Mayor Walt Maddox says losing an entire semester of school would be "economically disastrous for our community." Wesley Hitt/Getty Images hide caption
Andiswa Gebashe, left, and Nicoline Du Toit are the sign language interpreters for South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's pandemic briefings — and have become unlikely celebrities. Youtube/ Screenshots by NPR hide caption
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; and Adm. Brett P. Giroir, U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health, testified before Congress in June on the status of the pandemic. Fauci is just one of the public health leaders and their families across the U.S. who have received death threats and harassment since the pandemic began. Kevin Dietsch/Pool/Getty Images hide caption
This Bornean horseshoe bat and other bat species can harbor coronaviruses. The nonprofit group EcoHealth Alliance had its NIH research money cut for a project in China on bats and coronaviruses this spring — but just got a new multimillion dollar grant from the agency. NHPA/NHPA/Science Source hide caption
'Disease tolerance' is the ability of an individual, due to a genetic predisposition or some aspect of behavior or lifestyle, to thrive despite being infected with an amount of pathogen that sickens others. It might play a role in asymptomatic coronavirus infections. Alexander Spatari/Getty Images hide caption
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration headquarters in White Oak, Md. The agency this week has removed a top communications official in the wake of misleading claims it made about a treatment for COVID-19. Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
A worker disinfects the inside of a bus in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Transit agencies are taking new steps to reduce the risks for riders during the pandemic. Michael Tewelde/Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images hide caption
President Donald Trump looks on as FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn addresses the media during a press conference at the White House on on August 23. Pete Marovich/Getty Images hide caption
A coronavirus outbreak linked to a wedding reception has infected at least 87 people in Maine, according to the state Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Robert F. Bukaty/AP hide caption