Coronavirus Pandemic

U of M moving into 2nd phase of 4-step plan amid pandemic

09/28/2020 05:46 AM

This next step will mean fewer restrictions for students, but school officials are asking them to continue being careful...

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COVID-19 in Minnesota: 4 new deaths, 1,077 more cases reported

In this March 13, 2020, file photo, a nurse at a drive up COVID-19 coronavirus testing station, set up by the University of Washington Medical Center, holds a swab used to take a sample from the nose of a person in their car in Seattle. The federal government is rushing protective equipment to states for medical workers who will be on the front lines of the growing coronavirus pandemic. Washington state has received at least two shipments and needs more. At least in two other states, promised deliveries are falling far short of requests and even include expired items.

Here's how each school district in the metro is holding classes this fall

MDH: 1,478 newly-reported COVID-19 cases, state surpasses 2,000 total deaths

Wisconsin sets new daily high for positive COVID-19 tests as cases continue to spike

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. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. On Tuesday, April 21, 2020, U.S. health regulators OK'd the first coronavirus test that allows people to collect their own sample at home, a new approach that could help expand testing options in most states. The sample will still have to be shipped for processing back to LabCorp, which operates diagnostic labs throughout the U.S.

This February 2018 photo provided by the University of Maryland School of Public Health shows The Gesundheit II machine in Dr. Donald Milton's Public Health Aerobiology, Virology, and Exhaled Biomarker Laboratory of the university in College Park, Md. The device is helping scientists study a big question: Just how does the virus that causes COVID-19 spread from one person to another?

Tiny airborne particles may pose a big coronavirus problem

At a University of Maryland lab, people infected with the new coronavirus take turns sitting in a chair and putting their faces into the big end of a large cone. They recite the alphabet and sing or just sit quietly for a half hour. Sometimes they cough...

FILE- In this April 17, 2020, file photo, a patient is wheeled into Cobble Hill Health Center by emergency medical workers in the Brooklyn borough of New York.

Minnesota Department of Health criticized after changing COVID-19 hospitalization data

"That data is very important in understanding where a given state is in its sort of path and trajectory in regard to the pandemic, and whether we see changes, and slowing down growth of hospitalizations, for example. And we were getting all four metrics until recently," ...

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COVID-19 Briefing: Health officials discuss hospitalization data, ending of community surveys

During the state's regular COVID-19 briefing, state health officials discussed hospitalization data and the ending of a Centers for Disease and Control Prevention survey due to hostilities faced by survey teams ...

St. Paul Public Schools to continue with distance learning model

COVID-19 survey ended in Minnesota after health officials face confrontations, racial slurs

Virus cases rise in US heartland, home to anti-mask feelings

In this July 14, 2020, file photo, a health worker performs a COVID-19 test at a Test Iowa site at Waukee South Middle School in Waukee, Iowa.

COVID-19 in Minnesota: 6 new deaths, 1,191 more cases reported

Hundreds experiencing homelessness finding refuge in hotels during pandemic

Hotels have been a refuge for hundreds of people experiencing homelessness during the pandemic...

China aims to make 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses a year

A worker feeds vials for production of SARS CoV-2 Vaccine for COVID-19 at the SinoVac vaccine factory in Beijing on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. A Chinese health official said Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, that the country's annual production capacity for coronavirus vaccines will top 1 billion doses next year, following an aggressive government support program for construction of new factories.

Minnesota among 3 states chosen for Yale's saliva COVID-19 test

Democrats to redraft virus relief in bid to jump-start talks

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. speaks during a news conference Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Finland deploys coronavirus-sniffing dogs at main airport

Sniffer dog K'ssi at the Helsinki airport in Vantaa, Finland, Wednesday Sept. 22, 2020. Finland has deployed coronavirus-sniffing dogs at the Nordic country’s main international airport in a four-month trial of an alternative testing method that could become a cost-friendly way to identify infected travelers.

FILE - In this May 23, 2020, file photo, a vehicle arrives at COVID-19 testing site at Steele Indian School Park, in Phoenix.

Upcoming COVID-19 community testing events in Minnesota

Commuters at Waterloo Station, in London, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, after Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a range of new restrictions to combat the rise in coronavirus cases in England.

UK announces new plan to help workers hit by pandemic

MDH reports 3 new COVID-19 deaths, 995 new cases

6 new COVID-19 deaths, 76 more hospitalizations reported in Wisconsin

A total of 108,324 positive cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Wisconsin, with 2,392 new cases reported Thursday ...

Jobless claims at 870,000 as fraud and backlogs cloud data

The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment aid rose slightly last week to 870,000, a historically high figure that shows that the viral pandemic is still squeezing restaurants, airlines, hotels and many other businesses six months after it first erupted ...

In this April 30, 2020 file photo, a man writes information in front of Illinois Department of Employment Security in Chicago. It's the paradox of a pandemic that has crushed the U.S. economy: There are 12.9 million job losses and a dangerous rash of closed business, yet the personal finances of many Americans have remained strong, and in some ways have even improved. A new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that 45% of Americans say they’re setting aside more money than usual. Twenty-six percent are paying down debt faster than they were before the coronavirus pandemic. In total, about half of Americans say they’ve either saved more or paid down debt.

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Here's how each school district in the metro is holding classes this fall

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Wisconsin sets new daily high for positive COVID-19 tests as cases continue to spike

India’s confirmed coronavirus tally reaches 6 million cases

UN failures on coronavirus underscore the need for reforms

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