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- MDH statement on President Trump’s positive COVID-19 test
- Statement about COVID-19 vaccine planning
- COVID-19 Contracts for Diverse Media Messaging and Community Outreach
- Vaping-Associated Lung Injuries
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COVID-19 Media Briefings
MDH holds regular media briefings to provide COVID-19 updates. These briefings are typically Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, but sometimes shift due to scheduling considerations.
Some news outlets (TPT, MPR, KARE 11, local news radio stations, and more) broadcast the entire briefing on air, their websites, or Facebook pages where the public can listen in.
Stream Governor’s press conferences live (with ASL interpreting) and watch past press conferences: Office of the Governor of Minnesota’s YouTube channel
ASL interpretations of media calls: Minnesota Commission of the Deaf, DeafBlind & Hard of Hearing’s YouTube channel
Spotlight
- State updates COVID-19 testing recommendations for dial-back period
- New therapy drug that decreases need for hospitalizations, emergency visits arrives in Minnesota
- Health department to begin texting program to reach positive cases, close contacts
- Eleven new COVID-19 testing sites to open across Minnesota; mail order program now available statewide
- COVID-19 is a factor to consider during Infant Safe Sleep week
- State to open saliva testing location at Minneapolis Convention Center on Monday