The White House offered Wednesday to connect Nicki Minaj with one of the Biden administration’s doctors to address her questions about the COVID-19 vaccine, after the Trinidadian-born rapper’s erroneous tweet alleging the vaccine causes impotence went viral.
An elementary school in northern Minnesota is moving to distance learning for two weeks after reporting "substantial classroom transmission" of COVID-19.
Minnesota Department of Health officials held a COVID-19 briefing with reporters on Wednesday to discuss the latest backlogged data, COVID-19 vaccination rates, a Minnesota State Fair update and more.
The owner of a northern Minnesota breakfast restaurant is facing thousands of dollars in fines after continuing to run operations out of the business that had its license revoked for repeated violations of Gov. Tim Walz's COVID-19 pandemic-driven executive orders.
The calls from philanthropy leaders for more action from wealthy countries comes as President Biden plans to call for a "COVID Summit" to coincide with the meeting, according to news reports.
In an address last week, President Joe Biden outlined his "Path Out of the Pandemic." Increasing testing was one of the six parts of the plan. Specifically, the president mentioned affordable at-home, rapid, tests as a tool to combat the virus.
The average person doesn't need a COVID-19 booster yet, an international group of scientists — including two top U.S. regulators — wrote Monday in a scientific journal.
