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Wisconsin hospital worker arrested for spoiled vaccine doses

Wisconsin hospital worker arrested for spoiled vaccine doses

Authorities have arrested a suburban Milwaukee pharmacist suspected of deliberately ruining hundreds of doses of coronavirus vaccine by removing it from refrigeration for two nights.
by The Associated Press

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Can vaccine myths spreading on social media be stopped? 

Can vaccine myths spreading on social media be stopped? 

Misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine is pervasive, both on social media and in conversations. Let’s separate fact from fiction. 
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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'We will get through this': Doctor reflects on the impacts of COVID-19 in Indian Country

'We will get through this': Doctor reflects on the impacts of COVID-19 in Indian Country

Nine months into the coronavirus pandemic, Indigenous Americans have the highest COVID-19 mortality rates nationwide. That's made this an especially difficult year for Dr. Mary Owen, who leads the University of Minnesota Medical School's Center of American Indian and Minority Health in Duluth.
by Dan Gunderson

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Nursing home residents celebrate vaccine rollout: 'Everyone should get it'

Nursing home residents celebrate vaccine rollout: 'Everyone should get it'

Thousands of nursing home residents across Minnesota began receiving their first doses of COVID-19 vaccine this week. On Wednesday afternoon, that included 94-year-old Shirley Bethke. She’s a resident of the Gardens of Episcopal Homes in St. Paul.
by Cathy Wurzer and Britta Greene

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Health care workers try to bring COVID-19 patients joy, less isolation as life ends

Health care workers try to bring COVID-19 patients joy, less isolation as life ends

Medical staff are liaisons to the sick and dying for relatives not allowed at bedsides. The emotional toil at one Montana hospital is a case study of what caregivers are grappling with across the U.S.
by Nick Mott

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U.S. likely will miss goal of vaccinating 20 million by the new year

U.S. likely will miss goal of vaccinating 20 million by the new year

Leaders of the nation's federal vaccine effort, called Operation Warp Speed, said the U.S. has deployed around 14 million vaccine doses as of Wednesday with just 2.1 million Americans vaccinated.
by Jaclyn Diaz

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Dec. 31 update on COVID-19 in MN: A glimmer of hope at the end of a brutal year

Dec. 31 update on COVID-19 in MN: A glimmer of hope at the end of a brutal year

Minnesota is seeing signs of improvement heading into the new year, after two months of spikes in new cases, hospitalizations and deaths. The COVID-19 death count, however, remains awful. December has been the state’s deadliest month, by far, in the pandemic. Thursday’s data from the Health Department showed those trends staying much the same.
by MPR News Staff

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COVID-19 fight becomes personal for St. Louis County administrator

COVID-19 fight becomes personal for St. Louis County administrator

Kevin Gray has been overseeing St. Louis County’s response to COVID-19 since the spring. That fight became personal when the pandemic hit his family.
by Dan Kraker

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