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Last year, some of the largest slaughterhouses in the region temporarily closed after COVID-19 outbreaks. Those closures meant local farmers faced the prospect of having nowhere to send their livestock for processing, and no way to get their food to market. An East Bethel, Minn., woman decided to do something to help.
Michael Lewis' 'The Premonition' is a sweeping indictment of the CDC
In a new book, author Michael Lewis writes about public health officers who tried to get others to look at the data on COVID-19 and act to make sure the virus didn't spread.
Minnesota businesses struggle with back-to-work plans
What will office space look like after the pandemic? Open-plan shared spaces may be the thing of the past and many people might be splitting their time between conventional workspaces and home offices.
India launches effort to inoculate all adults against COVID
In hopes of taming a monstrous spike in COVID-19 infections, India opened vaccinations to all adults Saturday. But even in places where the shots were in stock, the country’s wide economic disparities made access to the vaccine inconsistent.
COVID 'doesn't discriminate by age': Serious cases on the rise in younger adults
With older adults vaccinated, doctors say a growing share of their COVID-19 patients are in their 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s, as more contagious variants circulate among people who are still unvaccinated.
TSA extends mask mandate aboard flights through summer as travel increases
Even as COVID-19 cases decrease and more Americans get vaccinated, the Transportation Security Administration is keeping strict regulations on mask-wearing when traveling domestically.
An artist and a scientist take on the stigma of addiction
The nation's top addiction scientist has teamed up with a prominent artist to let people know that substance use disorder is a disease, not a moral failure. "Prevention and treatment and recovery can't take place until we get rid of the stigma," artist William Stoehr says.