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Minnesota’s Department of Health is going to stop reporting the number of people in hospital with Covid-19
The data has consistently failed to support the state government's dire warnings. Rather than ditching the dire warnings, the state government is ditching the data. ...
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Recent cases suggest innocent people are paying the price for Minnesota’s soft courts
Minnesota's sentencing guidelines might need a rethink. ...
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Is the ‘positivity rate’ a good Covid-19 benchmark?
As long as testing is not truly 'random', the positivity rate is an unreliable benchmark....
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Minnesota’s COVID-19 emergency has passed. Why haven’t Gov. Walz’s emergency powers?
For the time being at least, while COVID-19 is still with us, the data is clear: The emergency period of this pandemic is over....
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Minnesota’s Economic News – W/E 9/18/20
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota....
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