Health

More than four hundred mental health workers at three Twin Cities hospitals will begin a 24 hour strike to protest dangerous working conditions and low wages. Kellie Benson is a senior mental health coordinator at Allina Abbott Northwestern hospital. She joined host Cathy Wurzer to talk more.

Sarah Souder Johnson is the co-founder and host of the Dissonance Sessions and a mental health therapist. She joined host Cathy Wurzer to talk more about her work.

Pfizer plans to submit the new data to the Food and Drug Administration this week, bringing families with young children one step closer to a long-awaited vaccine.

After mass shootings killed and wounded people grocery shopping, going to church and simply living their lives, the nation marked a milestone of 1 million deaths from COVID-19. The number was once unthinkable. Now it's a pedestrian reality in the United States.

"We're sorry to every family we've let down," wrote CEO Robert Ford. The shuttered plant at the heart of the shortage will reopen in June, but it may take months before production is back to normal.

During lockdown, gyms were out of the question. But some people felt more comfortable exercising at home, and companies hope to keep attracting new users by making VR apps more addictive and fun.

After last week’s apparent leveling off, COVID detection in the metro area sewage show a 58 percent increase over the previous week, according to the Metropolitan Council.

The Somali language hasn’t included a word for “autism.” Parents say that omission plays into community stigma and misunderstanding. A recent social media post from the Somali musician Aar Maanta highlighted efforts from Somalis in Minnesota to create positive language to identify autism.

Law professor Kim Mutcherson said that while states are bound by HIPAA laws, individuals are not. This means that abortion "bounty hunters" could help punish people who seek abortions in other states.

Michael Osterholm, a veteran epidemiologist and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, joined Cathy Wurzer on Minnesota Now to talk vaccines and COVID subvariants.