Health

March 10, 2022 10:24 AM

Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth end masking orders for city buildings

Officials in the three cities said they dropped the masking orders based on the state’s rapidly falling COVID numbers as well as guidance from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

by Andrew Krueger

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March 10, 2022 4:00 AM

Americans are stuck in unhealthy pandemic habits. Here's how to reboot

After two years of pandemic life, people have learned to cope in ways that have become stubborn, unhealthy habits. But there are positive steps we can take to reset a healthy lifestyle.

by Allison Aubrey

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March 9, 2022 5:59 PM

A look inside the 1st official 'safe injection sites' in U.S.

Two modest rooms in New York City are the first places in the United States where local officials are allowing illicit drug use to make it less deadly. Supporters see them as humane responses to a national surge in overdose deaths. Critics see them as illegal and defeatist.

by The Associated Press

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March 9, 2022 2:21 PM

The quality, cost and future of long-term care in Minnesota

COVID-19 hit nursing homes hard at the beginning of the pandemic and now many of them can’t find enough workers to care for vulnerable older adults. Host Angela Davis talked about the cost, quality and future of long-term care in Minnesota.

by Angela Davis, Maja Beckstrom and Sarah Gelbard

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March 9, 2022 2:07 PM

Long-term care complaints rise during pandemic

The state ombudsman for long-term care says widespread labor shortages in the industry can lead to abuse and neglect.

by Catharine Richert

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March 9, 2022 4:00 AM

As U.S. COVID deaths near 1 million, advocates press for a memorial day

Millions of people in the U.S. have lost someone they love to COVID-19, and advocates hope to have those losses marked each year on the first Monday in March.

by Tamara Keith

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March 9, 2022 4:00 AM

As COVID cases plummet, students take off their masks

Rochester Public Schools is the latest district to relax its masking requirements, making them mandatory only under specific circumstances. For one family, choosing to mask now is a matter of individual choice.

by Catharine Richert

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March 8, 2022 12:20 PM

After an Alzheimer's diagnosis, her husband asked for help to die with dignity

Novelist Amy Bloom talks about how, at her husband's insistence, she traveled with him to Zurich so he could legally terminate his life. Her new memoir is “In Love.”

by Terry Gross

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March 8, 2022 12:05 PM

Latest on COVID-19 in MN: Winter surge receding rapidly

Minnesota’s pandemic path continues to brighten, with fewer than 400 COVID patients in the hospital now and known, active cases trending near a seven-month low.

by MPR News Staff