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Long COVID patients turn to risky — and expensive — alternative treatments
Long COVID is a relatively new concept in the medical world. Doctors don’t have all the answers about the disease, its symptoms, or — most importantly — its treatment yet. It’s caused a feeling of desperation that has led some to seek alternative and risky health treatments, just for a chance to feel like themselves again.
Osterholm: There's a new COVID variant. Should we be worried?
There’s a new COVID-19 variant on the radar called BA 2.75. MPR News Reporter Catharine Richert talked with veteran epidemiologist Michael Osterholm about the latest insights.
Many try to return to normal from COVID, but disabled people face a different reality
With COVID safety protocols rescinding around the country, many are returning to a sense of pre-pandemic normalcy. But disabled and immunocompromised people can't do so, and are being left behind.
The pandemic pushed people to reevaluate their jobs. Meet 5 who reinvented themselves
Morning Edition spoke with people who changed their jobs and transformed their lives as a result of the pandemic, from a Broadway actor who entered the tech world to a mom who set more boundaries.
The dog days of COVID-19
Hospitalizations continue their downward trend, but cases, which had been on a very slow decline, have now plateaued completely. This suggests we may not be out of the woods yet on this wave. On the other hand, CDC’s community level risk rating indicates the best conditions in Minnesota since April, and much of the state is seeing a slow decline in COVID levels in wastewater too.