New data puts Minnesota coronavirus peak in summer, with supplies uncertain

Apr 09, 20200

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz pointed to this graph with its low, sloping increase for Minnesota as evidence that the stay-at-home order has spared the state from crisis conditions felt by Michigan, New York and Louisiana. Source: Office of the Governor Tim Walz

ROCHESTER, Minn. - Gov. Tim Walz revisited the the state's coronavirus mitigation efforts on Wednesday, April 8, in an extraordinary press conference that was one part stay-at-home-extension pep talk, one part crash-course in epidemiology, and one part every-state-for-itself admonition that the federal government has not only failed to come to the state's aid where it was required to by law, it has begun to prevent the state from helping itself.

The hour began with a hopeful chart, continued with several that were less hopeful, and closed by refocusing on the arrival in coming weeks of newly approved serological finger-stick tests, game-changing information that could potentially tell Minnesotans in just minutes if they have antibodies for the coronavirus and are free to work.

https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/newsmd/coronavirus/5034636-New-data-puts-Minnesota-coronavirus-peak-in-summer-with-supplies-uncertain