COVID-19: Coverage of the pandemic from MPR News

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'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.
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.
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.
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.