The Minnesota Department of Education is weighing three different scenarios for what back to school could look like for students this fall.
According to Covid-19 data for Minnesota, COVID-19 seems to be plateauing. According to NPR State health officials say 13 more Minnesotans have died from COVID-19, putting the total to 1,249…
Gov. Walz tells us that he needs to keep his emergency powers to protect us from Covid-19. How, then, is he managing to produce outcomes so much worse than in…
A lot of states have opened and they have not made it worse for themselves. Even some of the surge that was seen two weeks after reopening in some states…
Minnesota needs qualified ICU nurses to help fight Covid-19. Membership of the national Nurse Licensure Compact would make that easier.
On May 13th, the state's Covid-19 model forecast 1,441 deaths by the end of May. We had 1,040.
Understandably, infection fatality rates are different depending on demographics. Persons with underlying health conditions and the elderly are still at a huge risk compared to some others. But antibody testing…
For Covid-19, Minnesota's care homes are some of the most deadly in the United States. Why is that?
The full extent of the unintended consequences of the suspension of many medical services during the shutdown due to the coronavirus may never be known. But a Kaiser Family Foundation…
As school districts await guidance on what it will take to reopen classrooms this fall, students may not be there to fill them. Polls are showing many parents are considering…
Outside of these facilities Minnesota is safer than average, but data shows that we're failing to protect those most vulnerable.
Covid-19 ICU cases are edging up, but by imposing a ban on elective surgeries and then lifting that ban, Gov. Walz has created a simultaneous surge of non-Covid-19 ICU cases.
This article was written by Kevin Dayaratna, a statistician at the Heritage Foundation. Professor Neil Ferguson, who led the COVID-19 modeling team at Imperial College in London, resigned May 5 from…
About 20,000 people texted the hotline last month, compared with 1,790 texts in April 2019, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration confirmed to The Health 202. The hotline…
Minnesota's comparatively poor record on Covid-19 fatalities in nursing and assisted living facilities shows that our state government has failed to protect those most at risk.
Last week, I wrote on whether Covid-19 mortality data justified extending the lockdown, to which I said: Given the fact that most of the Covid-19 deaths are among a specific…
Georgia has been among the first states to move toward reopening. This despite all the extreme predictions that said Georgia’s mortality rates would double if the state were to move…
There was an unmistakable urgency to Minnesota Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm’s remarks at the May 5 Covid-19 task force briefing explaining the reasons behind Gov. Tim Walz’s executive order rescinding…
"We can say with 95 percent confidence that we are going to need a minimum of 3,000 beds starting in the middle of May." -Gov. Walz, April 8th. Yesterday, there…
Given the fact that most of Covid-19 deaths are among a specific demographic, it makes sense to focus isolation efforts on the more vulnerable groups while allowing businesses to open. Continuing…
You can't turn a normative question into a positive one. The question 'What will be the consequences of choosing Scenario 3?' is a positive one for 'science' to answer. But…
At the state’s daily coronavirus briefing, the top official coordinating Minnesota’s response to Covid-19 today acknowledged the strategy that led to the nation’s highest percentage of deaths in long-term care…
As our health care heroes continue to work tirelessly on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis, they often find themselves wearing face masks for extended periods of time. But…
Minnesota has the highest percentage of deaths tied to long-term care facilities as a share of total state deaths attributed to Covid-19 according to currently available date from 30 states…