Environmental News For The Week Ending 20December 2019
This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at
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Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately:
Some of the COVID-19 graphics presented in the above articles have been updated below.
Also, mentioned in two articles near the end of the disease collection is that there is a new strain of the virus circulating in southeast England that is 70% more infectious than the common strain. Since these news collections were assembled, England has locked down London and several European countries have restricted travelers from the country. I expect that we ll have more news on that in this coming week.
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Governor Tim Walz and Minnesota heath officials held a live media call to discuss vaccine distribution and new cases. This is going to take time. but we ll get there, Walz said of the state s effort to distribute COVID-19 vaccines.
The Minnesota Department of Health says it s expecting 94,800 doses of the Moderna vaccine that will primarily be reserved for long-term care residents and staff - this after getting nearly 47,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine last week.
Health officials expect all of the state s first top-tier recipients will get both doses of a vaccine by the end of January. It s not quite as optimistic as we had thought initially, but I think we re in a pretty good place considering we re talking about just three weeks of vaccine availability, said Kris Ehresmann, the Minnesota Department of Health infectious disease director.
Updated COVID-19 Numbers: Wednesday, December 23
December 23, 2020
Health officials also reported 75 news deaths bringing the death total to 4,971 in Minnesota.
According to the Minnesota Department of Health website, 5,287,998 tests have been completed to date.
There are 379,512 patients who no longer require isolation.
So far, 20,963 patients have required hospitalization and 4,474 cases have been hospitalized in ICU.
Below are the most recent COVID-19 cases by county in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan:
Carlton: 2,516 – 34 deaths
Cook: 102
Koochiching: 534 – 8 deaths