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How to handle a third summer with COVID-19
Where are we in the pandemic? MPR News host Angela Davis talks with Minnesota Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm and infectious disease expert Dr. Greg Poland about new strains, when to time your booster and how to cope with a virus that isn’t going away.
Tribal leaders sound the alarm after fentanyl overdoses spike at Blackfeet Nation
After 17 overdoses — including four deaths — this spring, Indigenous leaders in Montana and surrounding states look for ways to stop the fentanyl crisis and provide more treatment and care.
How to avoid and treat poison ivy
Dr. Jay Sheree Allen is a physician at Mayo Clinic and host of the podcast Millennial Health. She joined host Cathy Wurzer to talk about how Minnesotans can protect themselves against poison ivy.
On remote US territories, abortion hurdles mount without Roe
Women from the remote U.S. territories of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands will likely have to travel farther than other Americans to terminate a pregnancy if the Supreme Court overturns a precedent that established a national right to abortion in the United States.
COVID-19 in MN: Hopeful signs as cases, wastewater loads trend lower
Even as anecdotes of cases pile up, some data this week indicates that this wave has started to decline. But like always throughout this pandemic, it’s a challenge to understand exactly what’s happening in our communities right now.