Heavy snow and difficult travel expected again, heaviest snow in southern Minnesota

MPR News helps you turn down the noise and build shared understanding. Turn up your support for this public resource and keep trusted journalism accessible to all. 

Turn Up Your Support

It’s been five years since the COVID-19 pandemic caused mass lockdowns, shutting down bars, restaurants and schools in Minnesota and across the globe. And while the pandemic slowed down the world, it also cut through families and lives.

 Minnesota’s death toll from COVID-19 is 16,678. More than the population of Bemidji. That big of a loss mixed with political division hasn’t allowed for much of the state to process that grief, said 

, a professor emerita in the Department of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota.

“We haven’t moved on,” she said on Morning Edition. “As long as we’re stuck in this place of ambiguity about what has happened, it’s difficult for the people to find some peace in the losses that they did have.”

Boss talked more about ambiguous loss with MPR News host Cathy Wurzer. Listen to their full conversation by clicking the player above.

Shows

Morning Edition

NewsPartners

Health

COVID-19

On Air

Cathy Wurzer

Host

Lukas Levin

Author

On March 13, 2020, Gov. Tim Walz declared the COVID-19 pandemic a peacetime emergency. Five years later, an expert says we still haven’t fully processed the lives lost to the pandemic. 

'We haven't moved on' expert says grief from Minnesota COVID deaths linger

A person sanitizes stations at the Covid-19 test center

‘We haven’t moved on’ expert says grief from Minnesota COVID-19 deaths still linger

Go Deeper.

Like this?