From left: Douglas Emhoff, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, Jill Biden, and President-elect Joe Biden look down the National Mall as lamps are lit to honor the nearly 400,000 American victims of the coronavirus pandemic, at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on January 19, 2021, in Washington, D.C. #

A woman visits a COVID-19 memorial in Lafayette Square on January 19, 2021, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The city placed white flags in the park to commemorate the nearly 700 New Orleanians lost to COVID-19. #

Kamala Harris is sworn in as vice president by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, as her husband Doug Emhoff holds the Bible during the 59th presidential inauguration at the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021. #

First lady Jill Biden, President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and second gentleman Doug Emhoff watch as troops march in front of the U,S, Capitol on January 20, 2021. #

An image of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro with the question "How many deaths until impeachment?" is projected on a building during a protest against his policies regarding the coronavirus outbreak, photographed in the Santa Cecilia neighborhood of Sao Paulo, Brazil, on January 15, 2021. #

Father Maurizio De Sanctis, a parish priest, hugs his dog Miska after the evening mass dedicated to Sant'Antonio in the Catholic church of Santa Rosa on January 17, 2021, in Livorno, Italy. Usually every year on this day many churches in Italy celebrate a mass, open to animals, in honor of Saint Anthony, the fourth-century Egyptian hermit, patron saint of animals. This year, due to the pandemic and the new restrictions in areas of Italy, the masses have proved more difficult. #

Ela Gubbiotti hugs her partner Giancarlo Vannimartini, an anesthesiologist who has been hospitalized for 10 days, in a safe room where patients and relatives can hug each other, protected by a plastic-film screen set up inside the COVID-19 ward of the Ospedale dei Castelli Hospital in Ariccia, near Rome, on January 20, 2021. #

Protesters in white suits and wearing masks attend a demonstration against coronavirus measures and their economic consequences in Vienna, Austria, January 16, 2021. #

Diplomas are part of the "Da Vinci of Debt," on display at Grand Central Terminal on January 16, 2021, in New York. The artwork is made up of 2,600 authentic college diplomas from real graduates across the country. #

Firefighters work next to a damaged building following an explosion in downtown Madrid, Spain, on January 20, 2021. A loud explosion of unknown origin partially destroyed a six-floor-tall building flanked by a school and a nursing home in the center of Spain's capital. #

An employee closes the cremation oven during the cremation of the body of a victim of COVID-19 at the Nezahualcoyotl Municipal Cemetery, in Mexico state, Mexico, on January 20, 2021. Mexico has officially recorded more than 140,000 COVID-19 deaths—the world's fourth-highest toll after the United States, Brazil, and India. #

A photo shows the burial process of COVID-19 victims in Ankara, Turkey, on December 25, 2020. Washing, shrouding, funeral prayers, and burials of people who lost their lives because of the coronavirus are carried out within strict measures taken by the cemetery staff in Ankara. #

A street sign that normally reads "Thompson St" has been painted over to read "Trumpgone St" by the local artist Adrian Wilson, photographed on January 21, 2021, in New York City. #

A crowd of demonstrators march at the 39th annual Seattle MLK Jr. Day March and Rally on January 18, 2021, in Seattle, Washington. The event celebrates the national holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, and this year's theme was "Good trouble, necessary trouble," in honor of the words of the late Representative John Lewis. #

Honduran migrants, part of a caravan heading to the United States, walk along a road in Camotan, Guatemala, on January 16, 2021. At least 4,500 Honduran migrants pushed past police and crossed into Guatemala on Friday night, passing the first hurdle of a journey north that they hope will take them to a better life in the United States. #

José Luis Martínez-Almeida, the mayor of Madrid, speaks to the media after six floors collapsed in a building after a large explosion on Toledo Street, in central Madrid on January 20, 2021. Martínez-Almeida confirmed there had been two fatalities. The explosion took place in the parish premises and the residence floors of the priests of the Virgen de la Paloma parish, in the Archdiocese of Madrid. #

Dalis Johana Ramirez, a respiratory therapist, and Belkis Melgarejo, also a therapist, adjust an Ecleris NIV/CPAP helmet on a fellow hospital worker as they demonstrate how it works to the press under a tarp where El Tunal Hospital opened more beds this month, in Bogota, Colombia, on January 21, 2021. #