A normally full parking area near the US Capitol building sits mostly empty during a weekday afternoon. The stay at home orders around the COVID-19 virus has kept most people working remotely.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The disease was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province, and has since spread globally, resulting in the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.