Diverse Radio for Minnesota’s Communities
18 Unique Stations from Border to Border
18 Unique Stations from Border to Border
The CDC-supported survey is intended to better understand how COVID-19 is spreading in Minnesota and its communities, and how it is affecting people. The survey includes a questionnaire and tests for the virus and its antibodies.
Minnesota Native News launched several programs in response to the pandemic in addition to this one, including Native Lights: Biidaapi, a podcast hosted by Leah Lemm and her brother Cole Premo. And in the last six months, we’ve learned so much from Native voices in MN.
Some of the voices highlighted in this show include James Vukelich (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians), Maggie Thomspon (Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa), Rafael Gonzalez – a.k.a.Tufawon – (Dakota, Boricua), Dr. Shelbie Shelder (Little River Band of Ottawa Indians), Susan Beaulieu (Red Lake Nation), and Patina Park (Mnicoujou Lakota).
As schools reopen during the COVID-19 pandemic — be it in-person, distance or hybrid learning models — students may be asking what they should do if they feel sick.
So, recently, Minnesota health department officials released a video on what students should do if they feel sick.
The peacetime emergency gives the governor power to issue executive orders and regulate businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, without legislative approval. Walz says it gives him the ability to respond quickly to the rapidly changing COVID-19 pandemic, which is still very much a threat.
At his September 3rd briefing update, Governor Tim Walz warned Minnesotans that we may be at a COVID-19 tipping point. When Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House’s coronavirus task force coordinator, visited our state at the end of August, she noted that what she’s seeing here is similar to what she saw in Arizona at the end of July.
That’s when cases in the southwestern state began to surge and hospitals and morgues quickly reached capacity.
A statewide conversation with Minnesota’s Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan. It is a time for all of us to learn about the State of Minnesota’s response to this COVID-19 pandemic.
This week the Lt Governor answered questions about the school opening, the peacetime emergency and the Census.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has signed an executive order again extending the state’s peacetime emergency, this time through September 11.
Walz says the decision was made following advice from public health experts and advocates for the elderly, as well as labor and medical providers.
The peacetime emergency gives the governor power to issue executive orders and regulate businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also protects residents against evictions and wage garnishment.
The study was published by the Stanford University School of Medicine.
It found that among teens and young adults who were tested for COVID, those who had used e-cigarettes were five to seven times more likely to be infected with the virus than non-users.
