MANKATO — COVID rates are low in the Mankato area and drastically reduced from last summer. The Blue Earth County COVID hospitalization rate per 100,000 people was 1.5 for Aug. 3-Aug. 9, according to ...

The Minnesota Department of Health reports two counties in central Minnesota are seeing a heightened risk of COVID-19 this holiday season. RSV and influenza are also on the rise statewide. Pope and ...

Doctors reveal what you need to know about current infections across the country and what else to look out for this fall.

As fall COVID season arrives in Minnesota, here are answers to your questions, from whether you need the updated vaccine to ...

A little arithmetic and a question. Using numbers reported in the Jan. 8 Star Tribune, the current Minnesota COVID vaccination rate is about 10,000 shots per day. This rate is occurring in a situation ...

MANKATO — First there was shock. “You’re sitting watching TV and you hear the governor was shutting down the state for 30 days,” said Steve Wegman, owner of Weggy’s On Campus and The 507 bar and grill ...

ROCHESTER — More than four years after the spread of a novel coronavirus became a global pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consider COVID-19 to be an endemic disease — one that ...

The school year starts next week for many Minnesota families and physicians are concerned about children being undervaccinated. Right now, there’s a global outbreak of measles, with 34 cases reported ...

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic Claire Lindell, 9, was scheduled to have a spinal surgery that was postponed when hospitals decided to pause nonessential surgeries. Five years later, she has ...