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.
- The history of Voice of America
- 3/30: CBS Weekend News
- 3/30/2025: Hostages; Voice of America; Left Behind
- 2/23: Face the Nation
- Freed Israeli hostage Yarden Bibas calls to end war, bring remaining Gaza hostages home
- Elon Musk gives out $1M to Wisconsin voters after unsuccessful legal challenge
- Israeli hostages bond through horror of Hamas captivity
- Kim Delaney, actress known for "NYPD Blue," arrested in domestic dispute
- California wildfires left behind 9 billion pounds of toxic ash and debris | 60 Minutes
- What Trump's silencing of Voice of America means for listeners worldwide | 60 Minutes
- Trump administration cuts funding for Minnesota research on vaccines, health care access
- What are people asking about COVID-19 – and what do doctors wish patients knew?
- Five years ago, COVID gripped the world in fear. Now scientists, doctors warn Trump’s policies are weakening public health
- Photos: The 5-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Long COVID is creating tension between doctors and patients
- Spiritually Speaking: The dynamics of fear and faith
- Jury selection begins for alleged ringleader of $250M pandemic fraud scheme in Minnesota
- Long-COVID patients are frustrated that federal research hasn’t found new treatments
- Bruce Yandle: Why we should stop waiting for the pre-COVID economy to return
- 5 things we know and still don’t know about COVID, 5 years after it appeared
- Cory Franklin: Science journalists failed to ask Dr. Anthony Fauci the hard questions during the pandemic
- 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
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)