FILE - A man passes by the UN headquarters in New York on September 18, 2020. - During the 75th session of the UN General Assembly, Heads of State and Government will exchange statements via pre-recorded messages, that will be broadcast to a nearly e (TIMOTHY A.
CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)With COVID-19 still careening across the planet, the annual gathering of its leaders in New York will be replaced this year by a global patchwork of prerecorded speeches, another piece of upheaval in a deeply divided world turned topsy-turvy by a pandemic with no endpoint in sight.As U.N.