Catharine Richert
Senior Reporter
crichert@mpr.org
Catharine Richert is based in Rochester, Minn., and covers Southeast Minnesota for MPR News. She was previously on MPR's politics team, and has contributed to MPR's health care coverage. She lives in Rochester with her husband, a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic, and their three children.
Recent Contributions
- In Rochester’s library, social worker helps those in need
- Costs for COVID-19 hospitalization are changing. Here's why
- Gov. Walz taps $40M in COVID relief funding to ease hospital staffing strain
- ‘All hands on deck’: Hospitals report hundreds of staff out with COVID
- With flu cases on the rise, hospitals brace for impact
- Dozens protest fatal police shooting of Austin, Minn., man
- New CDC isolation guidelines raise concerns among health experts
- U.S. officials recommend shorter COVID isolation, quarantine
- In a season of generic Christmas photos, the Price family stands out
- New study looks at how policing affects preterm birth