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Pfizer agrees to let other companies make its COVID-19 pill
Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. has signed a deal with a U.N.-backed group to allow other manufacturers to make its experimental COVID-19 pill, a move that could make the treatment available to more than half of the world's population.
Three reasons more charities are giving people cash
More charities are coming to the conclusion that giving cash directly to people in need is often the best way to help them.
St. Paul music academy to expand its dementia-friendly chorus
With a new grant from the Minnesota Board on Aging, the Walker|West Music Academy hopes to get more people in the Black community talking about Alzheimer’s disease.
Exhausted doctors urge Minnesotans to get vaccinated
With COVID-19 cases numbers still high, hospitals are crowded and health care workers are stressed. Three Twin Cities physicians are fighting the effects of the virus along with misinformation about treatment and prevention of COVID-19.
Raising a gender expansive child
Host Angela Davis talks about how to support gender expansive children with teacher Tom Rademacher, who wrote a new book about what he’s learned raising his nonbinary art-nerd kid, a pediatrician who leads a gender health program and a nonbinary young adult who works with nonbinary teens.
COVID-19 in MN: Hospital needs hit 2021 highs as surge worsens
Two central Minnesota hospital systems said Friday they’re struggling to find beds for critically ill patients. Separately, new data shows dramatic differences in COVID-19 hospitalization and death rates between vaccinated and unvaccinated Minnesotans.
St. Cloud prison reports spike in COVID-19 cases
The Minnesota Department of Corrections said it’s taking steps to mitigate the outbreak, including moving intake processing to Faribault.