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'The wave is coming up upon us': Critical care doctors already feeling effects of COVID surge
As COVID-19 cases surge around the state, Minnesota hospitals are nearly full. Doctors working on the front lines of the pandemic say it’s just a matter of time before the system is in crisis.
COVID-19 in MN: Record daily cases, deaths, tests; hospitalizations top 1K
Friday’s numbers offered a startling confirmation of the repeated warnings from public health authorities over the past month that the disease was spreading rampantly. One key state health official implored Minnesotans: “You have got to make changes.”
First COVID-19 vaccine doses to go to health workers, say CDC advisers
A team of independent advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a science-based outline for deploying a vaccine when it's ready. The goal is to stop deaths and viral spread fast.
Nov. 5 update on COVID-19 in MN: 3rd straight day of record new cases; 25 deaths
The newest numbers come a day after Minnesota Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm called the state’s current COVID-19 surge “disheartening and alarming” as she braced Minnesotans for more bad days ahead.