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Trucker Israel Pliego — seen with his 2-year-old son Sebastian — was on a heart-lung bypass machine for 50 days last spring after catching COVID-1

Minnesota's long haul: One year of COVID-19

Change is the constant as Minnesotans found new pathways to deal with pandemic pressures.

A man was vaccinated at the Vikings Training Center in Eagan on Friday.

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1M Minnesotans have received COVID-19 shots

March 6

The state reported 975 new cases and 12 more deaths linked to COVID-19. The test "positivity rate" was again lower than the state's "caution" level of 5%.

Sam Corbett, 38, who has Down syndrome, went to North Dakota this week with his mom, Heidi Randolph of Richfield, to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

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Thousands of Minnesotans cross state lines for COVID-19 vaccine

March 6

Uncertainty about when COVID-19 vaccine shots will be available has given rise to a booming new form of travel, known as "vaccine tourism." More than 15,000 Minnesotans have left the state to get vaccines elsewhere.

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Minn. health officials report COVID-19 variant clusters in Carver Co., call for youth sports pause

March 6

More than five dozen cases have been linked to participants in school, club sports.

Samantha Brandt checked the volume for each saliva sample at IBX, Infinity Biologix, which has the ability to process up to 30,000 samples per day for

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Live: Latest updates and what you need to know about COVID-19

March 6

As the novel coronavirus spreads across the world, we've answered reader question about what they most want to know about the outbreak.

Retired pharmacist Russell Alan Garner behind the counter in his empty store in Wakefield, Va., Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021.

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Open spaces, no pharmacies: Rural U.S. confronts vaccine void

March 6

When Charlome Pierce searched where her 96-year-old father could get a COVID-19 vaccine in January, she found zero options anywhere near their home in Virginia. The lone medical clinic in Surry County had none, and the last pharmacy in an area with roughly 6,500 residents and more land mass than Chicago closed years ago.

M Health Fairview nurse Nicole Parr administered a dose of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Feb. 19 to James Wells, 73, of Minneapolis at Shiloh T

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Minnesota to address racial and ethnic inequities in COVID-19 vaccinations

March 5

COVID-19 vaccinations for Minnesota's Black, Hispanic and Asian populations lag behind shots given to the state's white population. The information comes from 10 large health care systems.

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