COVID-19: Coverage of the pandemic from MPR News

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Caught in the epicenter of the coronavirus, Minneapolis man finally comes home
After a visit to his parents in Wuhan, China, unexpectedly turned upside down because of the novel coronavirus, Yulin Yin was cleared to leave quarantine in California and arrived in Minnesota Wednesday.
The wide-ranging ways in which COVID-19 is hurting global business
Some factories are beginning to reopen, but labor shortages continue. In a recent poll of U.S. companies by Shanghai's American Chamber of Commerce, 78 percent said they lack staff to resume full production.
Fact-checking 'Contagion': In wake of coronavirus, the 2011 movie is trending
NPR asked epidemiologists and doctors to assess the science in the 2011 movie, in which the character played by Gwyneth Paltrow starts a global pandemic. Spoiler alert: The movie does a pretty good job.
A change in how 1 Chinese province reports coronavirus adds thousands of cases
Hubei province has added "clinical cases" to the count — patients who exhibit all the symptoms of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, but have either not been tested or tested negative.