Good morning. Happy Tuesday. For daily updates, subscribe to the Minnesota Today podcasts . Here’s your Digest: Flanagan says her brother has died after getting coronavirus. MPR News' Euan Kerr writes : "Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan said her brother Ron Golden has died after contracting COVID-19. In an Instagram post late Sunday Flanagan said her brother, who lived in Tennessee, received a cancer diagnosis some weeks ago. After getting COVID-19, he was placed on a ventilator and a medically induced coma. Flanagan said her brother's death underlines the importance of people staying home. In the post she wrote 'please consider the possibility that you are carrying the virus and don't know it, and then you walk by the next Ron, my big brother, in public."
And Sen. Amy Klobuchar's husband, John Bessler has been hospitalized with COVID-19. “He kept having a temperature and a bad, bad cough and when he started coughing up blood he got a test and a chest X-ray and they checked him into a hospital in Virginia because of a variety of things including very low oxygen levels which haven’t really improved,” Klobuchar wrote . “He now has pneumonia and is on oxygen but not a ventilator." Klobuchar said because she and John have been in different locations the past two weeks, “I am outside the 14-day period for getting sick, my doctor has advised me to not get a test. As everyone is aware, there are test shortages for people who need them everywhere and I don’t qualify to get one under any standard.”
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is working from home after possible exposure. It's as a precaution after a member of his security detail tested positive for COVID-19. The governor said he has not shown any symptoms — nor has he taken a test — but plans to self-quarantine for two weeks.
Predictably, coronavirus is becoming a campaign issue. Via NPR: "Former Vice President Joe Biden, the leading Democratic candidate for president, called for a far more urgent and better coordinated response to the coronavirus pandemic from the White House, in his first remarks of a new effort to reach voters while the campaign is essentially on hold."
And in non-coronavirus news...
Betty McCollum is trying to enlist Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeauu in a fight to save the Boundary Waters. Via Politico : She "hopes that Trudeau will insert himself in the fray based on a 100-year-old treaty between Canada and the U.S. that governs the countries’ treatment of boundary waters. ... The extent of the Canadian government’s willingness to engage is unclear. Communities and First Nations in Ontario upstream from the Twin Metals mine site question whether they’ll get to air their concerns about a massive resource development project that would be just miles away and subject to U.S. permitting rules." | 
