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Wisconsin’s positivity rate for coronavirus testing has been among the country’s highest — that's an indicator that many more people have infections than tests are revealing. Saturday's positivity rate for testing was 22 percent.
Mayor of Minnesota city disputes MDH reports of health workers being threatened
The mayor of a southern Minnesota city is pushing back on state health department claims that a COVID-19 survey team was threatened there earlier this month. "Personally, I think they owe the city of Eitzen and its citizens an apology," Mayor Jeff Adamson told MPR News on Saturday.
COVID-19 fact-finding leads to threats against health workers in Minnesota
Racism and implied threats of violence have stopped the work of public health care workers on a project looking at how the coronavirus spreads. That includes an incident in far southeastern Minnesota where workers were confronted by three men, one with a holstered gun.
COVID-19 cases already closing some Minnesota school buildings
Just three weeks into the start of the academic year, COVID-19 is already changing learning scenarios for Minnesota students, teachers and schools. District administrators say further changes are not a matter of “if,” but “when.”