COVID-19 News Sources
Items below are automatically aggregated from a variety of news sources. This collection of Minnesota and Twin Cities-related COVID-19 news items are taken from RSS tag feeds available on the sites available below. Sadly, only one of the four Twin Cities network channels—WCCO—has this capacity. If you see a news source that isn’t here but offers RSS tag feeds, please get in touch via the contact page.
- An owl came down a chimney and perched on a Christmas tree: See the video
- Eye on America: An inside look at human smuggling, and EV crash concerns
- How director Robert Eggers is reviving "Nosferatu" for a new generation
- Saturday Sessions: Ben Folds performs "We Could Have This"
- Saturday Sessions: Ben Folds performs "The Christmas Song"
- Holiday travel expected to break records
- Pope Francis tells Vatican staff to stop gossiping in Christmas speech
- What we know about suspect in Christmas market attack in Germany
- At least 30 dead after crash between a passenger bus and a truck in Brazil
- Rocket from Yemen strikes Tel Aviv, injuring 16 people
- Respiratory viruses causing more illnesses in Minnesota, according to state data
- Trump chooses Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, outspoken critic of COVID interventions, to lead NIH
- Don’t throw out expired COVID-19 tests, FDA says
- Do I need a second dose of the new COVID-19 vaccine?
- Study: Severe COVID raised risk of heart attack, stroke as much as having heart disease
- Do at-home COVID tests actually expire?
- Here’s why getting a COVID shot during pregnancy is important
- Nursing aides plagued by PTSD after ‘nightmare’ COVID conditions, with little help
- Study shows how pandemic affected teen boys and girls differently
- It’s time to roll up sleeves for new COVID, flu shots
- New COVID-19 XEC variant circulating just before fall
- Lisa Jarvis: The best treatment for COVID is still too hard to get
- The technology used to make the COVID vaccine may be key to pancreatic cancer treatment
- The new COVID vaccine is out. Why you might not want to rush to get it.
- This year’s new COVID shot has been approved by FDA
- Long COVID ties heart disease for health outcomes. Vaccines reduce risk: study
- Long COVID risk has decreased but remains significant, study finds
- Cory Franklin: Anthony Fauci made mistakes during the pandemic, but prosecution isn’t warranted
- Do you have COVID? Here’s how long the CDC recommends you stay home
- ‘Playing COVID roulette’: Some infected by FLiRT variants report their most unpleasant symptoms yet
- Other voices: Monstrous COVID-19 frauds leave taxpayers holding the bag
- ‘You’re in a room of people that get it’: Long COVID support group navigates life after COVID together
- Another COVID vaccine? Yes, and here’s why
- Positive test not needed for long COVID diagnosis, experts conclude
- Fraud trial juror reports getting bag of $120,000 and promise of more if she’ll acquit
- Cory Franklin: Was Sweden’s COVID-19 approach superior to that of the U.S.?
- Mistrust, fights and blood sport: How COVID-19 trauma is shaping the 2024 election
- There’s a new highly transmissible COVID-19 variant. Could FLiRT lead to a summer uptick?
- Aer Lingus resumes direct flights between MSP and Dublin, marking return of last COVID-disrupted service
- 7 Minnesotans accused in massive scheme to defraud pandemic food program to stand trial
- 7 Minnesotans accused in scheme to defraud pandemic food program go on trial
- Congress likely to kick the can on COVID-era telehealth policies
- Four years after shelter-in-place, COVID-19 misinformation persists
- COVID-19 can damage the heart, even without infecting it, study says
- F.D. Flam: The U.S. needs a non-partisan 9/11 Commission for COVID
- Health workers fear it’s profits before protection as CDC revisits airborne transmission
- F.D. Flam: Not even Antarctica could stop COVID. It’s a crucial lesson.
- St. Paul Public Schools approves $37.5M in teacher pay increases; budget cuts ahead
- Supreme Court seems favorable to Biden administration over efforts to combat social media posts
- Crime, housing, education and more: Here’s how St. Paul compares to a decade ago
Key Local Resources
- FREE TESTING
- GET VACCINATED
- Minnesota COVID-19 Situation Update - Minnesota Department of Health (MN DoH)
- Ramsey County COVID-19 Situation Update - Ramsey County
- St. Paul COVID-19 Public Information (Road closures, Free meal services, PPE donation locations, Testing locations, etc) - City of St. Paul
- Governor Tim Walz's Executive Orders
- Coronavirus Outbreak Information - Minnesota Department of Health (MN DoH)
- Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) - Ramsey County
- Advice for People at Risk for Serious Illness from COVID-19 - Minnesota Department of Health (MN DoH)
- Community-level strategies to slow COVID-19 - Minnesota Department of Health (MN DoH)
- Coronavirus Almanac Special - from Twin Cities Public Television (TPT), including a helpful "How to talk to your kids about Coronavirus" article
Key National Resources
- Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
- Center for Disease Control (CDC) - COVID-19 information
- Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) situation reports - Center for Disease Control (CDC)
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Coronavirus: Fact vs Fiction - a helpful podcast from CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Key International Resources
- World Health Organization (WHO) - COVID-19 information
- Coronavirus disease (COVID-2019) daily situation reports (global and by country) - World Health Organization (WHO)