Health leaders say virus is threatening to overwhelm Minnesota’s health care system

State health leaders and hospital executives are becoming starker in their warnings as the COVID-19 pandemic rages uncontrolled. Current conditions are “very dire,” Dr. Penny Wheeler, CEO of Allina Health, said in an afternoon briefing with reporters.

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