When a personal care assistant and her 101-year-old client both came down with COVID-19, the two women faced a choice: Ride out the virus alone or survive it together.
A Wisconsin pharmacist told police he tried to ruin hundreds of doses of coronavirus vaccine because he believed the shots would mutate people's DNA, court documents show. Health experts say there is no truth to claims that the vaccines can genetically modify humans.
"The 2021 version of March Madness will be one to remember," an executive says, as the NCAA plans to convert the Indiana Convention Center into a massive practice facility.
A fresh session of the Minnesota Legislature kicks off Tuesday with some new faces but the same power structure and a now familiar pressing item atop the agenda: how to respond to a health pandemic that has cost thousands of lives and knocked the economy off-kilter.
Britain on Monday took another giant step in the fight against COVID-19, ramping up its immunization program by giving the first shots in the world from the vaccine created by Oxford University and pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca.
State health officials said Monday that Minnesota has received enough vaccinations to provide all health care workers designated in the first phase of vaccine schedules to receive their first doses. The news came as Minnesota reported 3,148 new cases of COVID-19 and 13 more deaths.
While seniors are among the first in line for the COVID-19 vaccine, in many communities and states other safety nets in place to support the elderly are unraveling quickly.