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'You belong here': Minnesota House passes trans health refuge bill
The proposal would grant legal protections for transgender youth and family members who come to Minnesota seeking gender-affirming health care.
Online communities can help with loneliness — to a point
A new episode from APM's mental health initiative “Call to Mind" explores how loneliness affects mental and physical health, and how meeting an online community offline can help.
Growth amid 'ambiguous loss': How the pandemic has changed us
The pandemic has made it common for people to have endured extraordinarily difficult circumstances and lost something or someone dear to them. Without any sense of closure, that can be hard to deal with.
Epidemiologist Michael Osterholm reflects on three years of COVID-19 and looks toward the future
Three years ago, Gov. Tim Walz called for Minnesotans to “shelter in place” because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The plan was to flatten the curve, or decrease the number of people who were infected all at once so hospitals and ICUs were not totally overwhelmed. Today, there have been more than 1.7 million documented cases of COVID-19 in Minnesota.
Medicaid renewals are starting. Those who don't reenroll could get kicked off
With a pandemic-era rule expiring this month, people on Medicaid will have to re-qualify to keep their coverage. Language barriers, housing instability and computer literacy could stand in their way.