Health

News coverage and resources related to COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.

There’s still much we don’t know about the coronavirus. But we can’t stop living. How do we make decisions for ourselves and our families that are good enough?

In partnership with MPR’s Call To Mind mental health initiative, MPR News host Angela Davis moderated a live-stream virtual conversation about the most recent high-profile incident to become an example of historic racial injustice.

U.S. employers unexpectedly added jobs last month as the unemployment rate declined, signs that people are returning to work as states reopen their economies. President Trump celebrated the news.

“COVID is still with us, but we gotta live with it,” Gov. Tim Walz said Friday as he announced a further loosening of restrictions on restaurants, salons and barbershops, religious services and other parts of daily life amid some evidence the pandemic may be plateauing.

The economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has artists struggling to make their way forward.

When COVID-19 infections forced pork companies to close processing plants, some farmers predicted that it would force them to euthanize millions of hogs. The actual number has been much lower.

A paper suggesting hydroxychloroquine increases the risk of death for patients with COVID-19 has been retracted by three of its authors because they were not able to verify the data used in the study.

Climate change has exacerbated some of the health inequities behind disparities in COVID-19 cases.

George Floyd had drugs in his system and severe heart disease when a Minneapolis police officer put a knee to his neck, but independent experts say the medical problems don’t change the conclusion that the handcuffed man’s death was a homicide.