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COVID vaccines may briefly change your menstrual cycle, but you should still get one

COVID vaccines may briefly change your menstrual cycle, but you should still get one

The new research affirms what many individuals had reported. But it also shows the changes to the menstrual cycle are mostly minor and brief, more akin to a sore arm than a dangerous reaction.
by Geoff Brumfiel

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Supreme Court conservatives seem skeptical of vaccine-or-test mandate for businesses

Supreme Court conservatives seem skeptical of vaccine-or-test mandate for businesses

Conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court appeared skeptical Friday of the Biden administration's vaccine-or-test mandate it imposed on large companies amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
by Krishnadev Calamur and Nina Totenberg

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As COVID-19 surges in schools, will districts return to distance learning?

As COVID-19 surges in schools, will districts return to distance learning?

As the omicron variant races through Minnesota, we're seeing more kids getting sick, and school staff, too. MPR News education reporter Elizabeth Shockman joined host Cathy Wurzer with the latest on how schools across the state are managing the pandemic — and whether some might go back to distance learning.
by Cathy Wurzer

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MN sports roundup: Wave of COVID-19 cancellations continues

MN sports roundup: Wave of COVID-19 cancellations continues

Another week, another sports update. Wally Langfellow and Eric Nelson talked Vikings, Lindsay Whalen and the wave of COVID-19 cases and cancellations that continues to wash over all of sports.
by Cathy Wurzer

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What we know about the symptoms — and the severity — of the omicron variant

What we know about the symptoms — and the severity — of the omicron variant

Researchers are looking at data from U.S. cases to determine if the variant causes milder disease. Even if the answer is yes, they say, rates of hospitalization could be high during the surge.
by Michaeleen Doucleff and Will Stone

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New Minnesota COVID-19 testing sites start opening Friday

New Minnesota COVID-19 testing sites start opening Friday

Minnesota’s newest COVID-19 community testing site will open at the National Guard Armory in Anoka on Friday. The Guard will also help raise the capacity of a similar site in downtown St. Paul. The state is boosting testing capacity amid the spike in omicron variant cases. 
by The Associated Press and Mark Zdechlik

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COVID claims Twin Cities writer, activist Mel Reeves

COVID claims Twin Cities writer, activist Mel Reeves

Reeves, 64, spent decades chronicling and participating in the region’s protest movements. The publisher of the Spokesman-Recorder, where he worked as community editor, said Reeves embodied the newspaper’s tradition as a "voice for the voiceless."
by Jon Collins

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