Minnesota’s post-holidays COVID-19 numbers remain messy, making it hard to chart the disease’s next steps. One thing, however, is increasingly clear: It’s the deadliest period so far in the pandemic for Minnesotans who are not in long-term care.
For much of the pandemic, people over 80 accounted for the largest share of all COVID deaths. Older people are still much more likely to die from COVID-19 than younger demographics, but after the rollout of vaccinations starting in December 2020, the death rate there plunged.
And in the past week, for the first time all pandemic, people under 65 have accounted for more deaths than Minnesotans 80-plus. Find a deeper analysis here.
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Health care is in a triage state, and conditions will worsen over the next three to four weeks before leveling off, Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, told MPR News Monday.
After yet another arctic blast Sunday and Monday, the cold is packing its bags for a bit. We’re also eying a potential snowfall Friday into Friday night. The odds of plowable snow are increasing.
Team owners confirmed they fired head coach Mike Zimmer and general manager Rick Spielman following another disappointing season as the team missed the playoffs.
The upcoming production of "A Raisin in the Sun" will now open in the late spring, and the late-April-to-early-June pre-Broadway run of "Destiny of Desire" by acclaimed playwright Karen Zacarias has been canceled.
Fire crews were fighting a large fire at a condemned hotel in Duluth in subzero conditions Monday. Fire officials say the roof of the old Seaway Hotel in the Lincoln Park Craft District collapsed and all firefighters were pulled out of the building.
While there still are weeks of winter ahead, officials at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in northern Wisconsin aren't optimistic about access to the park's famed Lake Superior ice caves.
There’s a new candidate for Minnesota governor on the Republican side: Kendall Qualls. He’s an Army veteran and business executive who ran unsuccessfully as the Republican candidate for Congress in Minnesota’s 3rd District in 2020.
New York City authorities have revised down the number of people who died in a five-alarm fire inside a Bronx high-rise building on Sunday. Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday that 17 people lost their lives in the fire, including eight children.
