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How Minnesota's evictions ban is playing out

How Minnesota's evictions ban is playing out

With money tighter amid the pandemic, what rights and protections do tenants have? What rights do property owners have? Two experts in the housing industry joined the program to talk about the pandemic’s impact on tenants and landlords.
by Angela Davis and Katie Moritz

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Cracking the 'giant jigsaw puzzle': Minnesota schools scale back reopening plans

Cracking the 'giant jigsaw puzzle': Minnesota schools scale back reopening plans

Minnesota’s constellation of school plans is beginning to take shape. But rising case rates, uncertainty, budget constraints and pushback from teachers means many districts have already scaled back plans for in-person learning.
by Elizabeth Shockman

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Thousands allowed to bypass environmental rules in pandemic

Thousands allowed to bypass environmental rules in pandemic

Thousands of oil and gas operations and other sites have won permission to stop monitoring for hazardous emissions or otherwise break government rules because of the coronavirus outbreak. The findings come in an investigation by The Associated Press. 
by The Associated Press

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How to talk to vaccine skeptics so they might actually hear you

How to talk to vaccine skeptics so they might actually hear you

With the advent of flu season, and COVID-19 cases rising, a public health disaster even worse than what we’re now experiencing could occur this fall and winter. Here are some myths and truths about how to increase rates of vaccinations.
by The Associated Press

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Aug. 24 update on COVID-19 in MN: Cases steady as U of M delays on-campus classes

Aug. 24 update on COVID-19 in MN: Cases steady as U of M delays on-campus classes

Minnesota’s COVID-19 case numbers continued their climb Monday, as the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents approved a proposal to delay in-person classes for some of its campuses.
by MPR News Staff, Catharine Richert and Peter Cox

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FDA authorizes convalescent plasma as emergency treatment for COVID-19

FDA authorizes convalescent plasma as emergency treatment for COVID-19

President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that the FDA granted emergency use authorization to treat COVID-19 patients with plasma from people who have recovered from the virus, based on "promising" results.
by Rachel Treisman

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Trump says COVID-19 plasma treatment is authorized

Trump says COVID-19 plasma treatment is authorized

Even as it issued the “emergency authorization,” the FDA said “COVID-19 convalescent plasma does not yet represent a new standard of care based on the current available evidence.”
by The Associated Press

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Aug. 23 update on COVID-19 in MN: New cases climb, ICU needs dip

Aug. 23 update on COVID-19 in MN: New cases climb, ICU needs dip

Sunday’s numbers continue to send a mix of hopeful and concerning signals, and state public health leaders remain concerned that Minnesotans are becoming numb to the disease’s risk.
by MPR News Staff

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