The percentage of Minnesotans without health insurance fell to 3.8% last year — an all-time low, according to the Minnesota Department of Health. Previous survey results by the Health Department in 2021 found an uninsured rate of 4%. The reduction is not statistically significant, the state says, although it suggests that an estimated 11,000 fewer Minnesotans were uninsured last year. Higher ...
Additional clusters of measles have been identified in Philadelphia by health officials after they say one of the newest confirmed cases were caught at a day care that disregarded quarantine instructions.
In order to share grant funding, a partnership between the service agencies assisting the victims of the July 4 parade shooting has been formalized by the Highland Park City Council. The interagency agreement was suggested to the city by the Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime unit, as a way to facilitate resource sharing, while the city pursues an Antiterrorism and Emergency ...
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Ottawa CountyA county commissioners board in western Michigan that was taken over by a far-right slate of candidates will vote Tuesday on whether to drastically cut the health department’s budget, in the face of pleas by public health officials and community protests.A group of ultraconservative candidates, motivated by resentment over COVID restrictions and mask mandates, swept to power in a election held in Ottawa County in Aug. 2022.