COVID-19

Big data drives Minnesota's COVID-19 response. Take a look under the hood.

A man pointing to a graph on a screen.
Gov. Tim Walz provides an update on the state's next steps to respond to COVID-19 during a news conference on on April 8, 2020 in St. Paul. Walz is using a model from the Minnesota Department of Health and the University of Minnesota to predict the health impacts of COVID-19. But with data so uncertain, the model doesn’t predict one future so much as many.
Glen Stubbe | Star Tribune via AP file