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Minnesota Now with Nina Moini
Cathy Wurzer and Alex Cheng

How nurses in greater Minnesota are faring as COVID surges

a nurse layers PPE in a hospital
North Memorial Health Hospital critical care nurse Kayla Lynch wears a protective gown before entering the room of a COVID-19 patient during her shift on Dec. 7, 2020 in Robbinsdale, Minn.
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Minnesota marked a sad milestone today: The state surpassed 10,000 COVID-19 deaths since the pandemic began.

The pandemic has stretched Minnesota's hospital system and health care workers thin. The presidents and CEOs of some of the state's largest health care systems recently published a letter in newspapers across the state to say their hospitals are overwhelmed.

Health care professionals in greater Minnesota met virtually Wednesday to discuss the COVID-19 situation in rural parts of the state. Andrea Roberts participated in the meeting, and she told host Cathy Wurzer more.

Roberts is interim director of the graduate program in nurse anesthesiology at Mount Marty University and president of the Minnesota Association of Nurse Anesthetists. She practices at Sanford Luverne Medical Center in Luverne, Minn.

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