A look at the latest virus wave and what may lie ahead of us
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| Nurse Jessica Mistic walks past the room of a COVID-19 who is off isolation but still needs care for complications from the virus or other health issues in Bemidji, Minn., in September 2021. | |
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| Biggest wave of new COVID cases hits Minnesota |
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Minnesota is seeing unprecedented COVID infections, with more cases than the state has ever seen before. New data from the state's Health Department shows cases topping 11,000 in tests from a single day recently, even with millions of Minnesotans vaccinated. The numbers don't count the untold numbers that are taking tests and finding out they have COVID at home.
And these aren't just numbers.
Garbage isn't getting picked up in some places. Some police and fire departments are straining to keep cops and firefighters on the street. In Osseo, the district's schools are sending kids home again for the rest of this week and next week, after nearly a quarter of the staff got sick.
The state's seven-day rolling average of hospital admissions is up more than 45 percent since Christmas Eve, back over 200 a day. Health experts fear that even a glancing blow from omicron may prove a staggering one-two punch for the state's health care system. | |
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