Mpls schools return to e-learning Monday
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It is a cold start to the week with most of the state reaching high temperatures in the single digits Monday. It's be warming up a bit for the rest of the week. Find the latest on Updraft. | |
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Dr. Jacob Lyons enters a negative pressure room to check on a COVID-19 patient last month at the St. Cloud Hospital. During the first week of the new year, hundreds of hospital workers around the state called in sick with COVID-19. Paul Middlestaedt for MPR News
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| Hospitals staffing struggles mount amid Omicron-fueled case surge |
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High demand for testing — both over-the-counter tests and PCR tests done by providers and at state testing sites — is making staff shortages worse. Providers are waiting days to find out if they are positive for COVID, said Dr. Andrew Olson, director of Hospital Medicine at M Health Fairview.
"It's a massive issue. And if you asked me, ‘What is the one thing that we could do today as a state, to get our hospitals running as well as they can and keep them going and keep our community safe?’ It's a rapid turnaround of high-quality, freely available, no barrier testing, no appointments," he said.
At Fairview, 11 percent of acute care staff are currently out sick. That’s up from between 3 to 5 percent in recent weeks, said Olson, who said the situation has created the most challenging labor shortage he's seen since the start of the pandemic. [Continue reading] | |
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New era in Minneapolis as more power shifts to mayor As Minneapolis elected officials are inaugurated Monday morning, they'll be taking office under a new city governmental structure which gives the mayor more executive authority. But exactly how that new structure is implemented will likely play out over the next few months or years.
Distance learning day Minneapolis Public Schools is closing its buildings and shifting to an e-learning day on Monday, due to the bitter cold forecast and concerns about COVID-19 affecting bus transportation.
There’s a new Republican candidate for Minnesota governorKendall Qualls entered the race Sunday , after touring the state for months as head of a nonprofit called TakeCharge Minnesota. Qualls is an Army veteran and business executive who ran unsuccessfully as the Republican candidate for Congress in Minnesota’s 3rd district in 2020. | |
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