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COVID-19: Coverage of the pandemic from MPR News

The latest news, resources, guides and tips to help you stay up to date on the coronavirus pandemic.

Photos: What going back to school looks like in a pandemic

Photos: What going back to school looks like in a pandemic

It was an untraditional first week of school for thousands of students across Minnesota. Some returned to school buildings — wearing face masks and social distancing — for the first time since the spring, when the state suspended in-person learning as the pandemic took off. Others logged on to their laptops from home for distance learning. 
by MPR News Staff

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U drops men's track, tennis, gymnastics; cites need to cut costs, COVID-19

U drops men's track, tennis, gymnastics; cites need to cut costs, COVID-19

The University of Minnesota will end men’s indoor and outdoor track and field, men’s gymnastics and men’s tennis as it slashes costs to ease losses from the COVID-19 pandemic and the Big Ten’s move to postpone football.
by MPR News Staff

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Some hospitals fail to set COVID-19 patients apart, putting others at risk

Some hospitals fail to set COVID-19 patients apart, putting others at risk

Nurses say COVID-19 patients have sometimes been housed in the same units as uninfected patients. While officials have penalized nursing homes for such failures, hospitals have seen less scrutiny.
by Christine Jewett

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Woodward defends decision to withhold Trump's virus comments

Woodward defends decision to withhold Trump's virus comments

Bob Woodward says he needed time to be sure that President Donald Trump's private comments from February were accurate. On Twitter and elsewhere online, commentators accused Woodward of valuing book sales over public health.
by The Associated Press

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'Deadly stuff': Trump's own words bring focus back to virus

'Deadly stuff': Trump's own words bring focus back to virus

A new book by journalist Bob Woodward reveals that President Donald Trump told Woodward he had been warned in January that the virus had the potential to kill millions. Yet Trump reassured Americans publicly that the virus was "very well under control."
by The Associated Press

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