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The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Minnesota climbed past 30,000 on Saturday, while the number of people hospitalized with the disease in the state fell to its lowest level in more than a month.
The president had faced fierce criticism for scheduling a campaign rally on the holiday commemorating the effective end of slavery, in a city home to a horrific incident of racial violence in 1921.
Overall, long-term care deaths account for about 80 percent of COVID-19 deaths in Minnesota — those numbers include nursing homes, assisted living facilities, memory care units and group homes.
The budget outline includes freezes on tuition, systemwide hiring and merit pay raises for all employees. Separately, regents approved an initiative for temporary employee pay cuts and furloughs to help make up for $35 million in room and board refunds after students were sent home for the spring semester.
Doctors already are using survivor plasma as a treatment for many hospitalized patients, even as research still is underway to tell if it really works.
The special session of the Legislature got underway Friday with a debate over extending the emergency authority of Gov. Tim Walz to respond to the coronavirus outbreak. Republicans also released a much shorter list of policing changes than the one Walz backed Thursday.
The World Bank issues a report this week detailing the extent of the recession, the first caused solely by a pandemic. Its findings are sobering — but do offer a glimmer of hope.
The event was originally planned to be held in Charlotte, N.C., but will now move to Florida after pushback from the North Carolina governor regarding the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Minnesota health officials offered some cautiously upbeat analysis Friday on the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic even as they warned the situation could deteriorate if Minnesotans get complacent.