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What you need to know about Minnesota's new limits on bars, restaurants, gatherings

What you need to know about Minnesota's new limits on bars, restaurants, gatherings

It has been a difficult few weeks in Minnesota, as COVID-19 continues its rampant spread across the state, leaving record-smashing case numbers and a devastating toll of hospitalizations and deaths. Gov. Tim Walz announced an effort Tuesday to tamp down the spread, as he imposed new statewide restrictions on bars, restaurants and social gatherings.
by Catharine Richert

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Nov. 11 update on COVID-19 in MN: Record 56 deaths; hospitalizations climbing

Nov. 11 update on COVID-19 in MN: Record 56 deaths; hospitalizations climbing

Wednesday’s awful number puts Minnesota’s seven-day trend above 30 deaths a day for the first time in the pandemic. The record comes a day after Walz unveiled new restrictions on bars, restaurants and big events to try and stem the disease’s spread.
by MPR News Staff

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ChangeMakers: Sean Sherman, teaching Indigenous food traditions as cultural preservation

ChangeMakers: Sean Sherman, teaching Indigenous food traditions as cultural preservation

Sean Sherman, 46, founder of the Sioux Chef and Indigenous Food Lab is working to teach Indigenous people about ancestral food traditions. Sherman’s approach to education incorporates foraging, ancestral recipes and business training, in hopes that someday soon, there will be more people creating Native cuisine in Minnesota.
by Kathryn Styer Martinez

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Minneapolis police looking for reinforcements to help with officer shortage, 911 response

Minneapolis police looking for reinforcements to help with officer shortage, 911 response

After an often heated discussion, the Minneapolis City Council supported a proposal for nearly $500,000 to pay for law enforcement officers from other agencies to help the MPD respond to a spike in crime.
by Brandt Williams

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Reporter’s notebook: Understanding COVID-19 case rates over time

Reporter’s notebook: Understanding COVID-19 case rates over time

On Monday, Minnesota reported 3,930 new confirmed cases of COVID-19. Is that bad? Is it OK? How should we interpret those numbers? Figuring it out can be difficult. Data reporter David Montgomery shares one trick he uses to help put COVID-19 figures in context — by making a rough translation into personal risk.
by David H. Montgomery

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Walz backs 10 p.m. curfew on in-person service at bars, eateries, curbs on events to stem COVID

Walz backs 10 p.m. curfew on in-person service at bars, eateries, curbs on events to stem COVID

“If we can break the back of this thing,” Gov. Tim Walz said of the pandemic, “we can get to the other side of this without putting people at more risk.”
by Brian Bakst and Catharine Richert

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Osterholm joins Biden's COVID task force, hopes to work with Trump team

Osterholm joins Biden's COVID task force, hopes to work with Trump team

A prominent Minnesota infectious disease expert has been chosen as a member of President-elect Joe Biden’s new coronavirus advisory board. On MPR News, Dr. Michael Osterholm talked about the task force’s plan to fight the virus, the latest on vaccine development and where we are now with the pandemic.
by Steven John and Jiwon Choi

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ChangeMakers: Vanessa GoodThunder, revitalizing the Dakota language

ChangeMakers: Vanessa GoodThunder, revitalizing the Dakota language

Vanessa GoodThunder, 26, is the director of the C̣aƞṡayapi Waḳaƞyeża Owayawa Oṭi, the Lower Sioux Early Head Start and Head Start Dakota language immersion program in Morton, Minn. She is from the Lower Sioux Indian Community, a Dakota community in Southwest Minnesota described as "where they paint the trees red."
by Jaida Grey Eagle

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