Coronavirus Pandemic

Forest Lake woman recovering from COVID-19 after receiving experimental plasma transfusions

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Bethesda is the only facility in Minnesota exclusively treating COVID-19 patients. Dr. Kuhlmann said they have 100 total beds and have treated about 400 COVID-19 patients since opening in March ...

Virus spike prompts big California about face on reopenings

A dine-in customer with a face mask on his head is surrounded by tables marked with X's for social distancing at a restaurant in Los Angeles, Wednesday, July 1, 2020. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered a three-week closure of bars and indoor operations of restaurants and certain other businesses in Los Angeles and 18 other counties as the state deals with increasing cases of COVID-19.

What you need to know about the 'Stay Safe MN' order

A shopper in a car is assisted at a curbside pickup spot at the Mall of America where shoppers can pick up their orders after buying online or by phone from some mall stores Tuesday, May 5, 2020, in Bloomington, Minn.

COVID-19 Briefing: MDH commissioner reminds Minnesotans of 'new normal' as holiday weekend approaches

Health officials close indoor service at Madison bars

426 new COVID-19 cases, 4 additional deaths reported by MDH

In this April 2, 2020, file photo a nurse holds a vial and a swab at a drive-up coronavirus testing station at a hospital in Seattle. A federal report due out Monday, April 6, finds that three out of four U.S. hospitals surveyed are already treating patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19.

Jennifer Gottschalk, environmental health supervisor of the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department, retrieves a file in Toledo, Ohio, on Wednesday, June 24, 2020. She says the job is wearing on her. She has worked for months with hardly a day off. So many lab reports on COVID-19 cases came in that the office fax machine broke. And she fields countless angry phone calls amid community backlash over coronavirus restrictions.

Hollowed out public health system faces more cuts amid virus

The U.S. public health system has been starved for decades and it lacks the resources to confront the worst health crisis in a century...

FILE - This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19.

COVID-19 in Wisconsin: 601 new cases, 7 additional deaths

In total, 79% of patients have recovered, meaning 30 days passed since the onset of symptoms or their diagnosis or their release from isolation was documented ...

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Gopher Athletics reports seven positive COVID-19 tests

The University of Minnesota announced Tuesday seven of 170 COVID-19 tests given to student-athletes during the month of June came back positive...

Fauci: US could reach 100,000 new cases a day

Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 30, 2020. Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci listens at left.

MDH: 444 new COVID-19 cases, 6 new deaths

FILE - In this March 16, 2020, file photo, Neal Browning receives a shot in the first-stage safety study clinical trial of a potential vaccine for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. The vaccine by Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Moderna Inc., generated antibodies similar to those seen in people who have recovered from COVID-19 in a study of volunteers who were given either a low or medium dose.

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HealthPartners doctor: Future steps crucial in combating COVID-19 in state

Masks to be required in Edina, Rochester and U of M campus buildings

The cities of Edina and Rochester as well as the University of Minnesota will soon be requiring people to wear face masks to help stop the spread of COVID-19...

EU reopens its borders to 14 nations but not to US tourists

In this Saturday, June 13, 2020 file photo, a sign with the opening hours of the border checkpoint between Harrislee in Germany and Padborg in Denmark is displayed in front the border crossing in Harrislee, Germany. The European Union is set to make public Tuesday June 30, 2020, a list of countries whose citizens will be allowed to enter 31 European countries, but most Americans are likely to be refused entry for at least another two weeks due to soaring coronavirus infections in the U.S.

Testing results for mass gatherings show low number were positive for COVID-19

Walz, health officials say Minnesota has built capacity for 20,000 COVID-19 tests per day

Gov. Tim Walz announces a COVID-19 testing milestone for Minnesota on Monday, June 29, 2020.

Minnesota sees 10 additional COVID-19 deaths, 315 new cases

A health workers checks the temperature of a man during COVID-19 coronavirus testing Thursday, April 23, 2020, in Gombak on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

World hits coronavirus milestones amid fears worst to come

Police officers patrol New York's Times Square on foot, Wednesday night, April 29, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. The New York City immortalized in song and scene has been swapped out for the last few months with the virus version. In all the unknowing of what the future holds, there's faith in that other quintessential facet of New York City: that the city will adapt.

Broadway shutdown due to virus extended again until January

In this March 2020 photo provided by Gilead Sciences, a vial of the investigational drug remdesivir is visually inspected at a Gilead manufacturing site in the United States. Given through an IV, the medication is designed to interfere with an enzyme that reproduces viral genetic material.

Gilead prices coronavirus drug at $2,340 for rich countries

Summer may decide fate of leading shots in vaccine race

People on six continents already are getting jabs in the arm as the race for a COVID-19 vaccine enters a defining summer, with even bigger studies poised to prove if any shot really works — and maybe offer a reality check ...

In this Wednesday, June 24, 2020 file photo, a volunteer receives a COVID-19 test vaccine injection developed at the University of Oxford in Britain, at the Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Minnesota sees 8 additional COVID-19 deaths, 523 new positive cases

Sunday, the Minnesota Department of Health reported there are 523 new cases that have tested positive for COVID-19, creating a total of 35,549 cases in the state...

Pence cancels some political events because of virus spikes

Vice President Mike Pence called off campaign events in Florida and Arizona this coming week as the states experience a surge in new coronavirus cases ...

Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a news conference with the Coronavirus task force at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, Friday, June 26, 2020.

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