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Cook County has the state's highest vaccination rate and lowest infection rate.

The Daily Yonder The Rural County That Kept Covid at Bay In the remote northwoods of Minnesota, one county has achieved the rare distinction of recording zero Covid-19 deaths more than a year into the pandemic. How did they do it? Share this: Summer day on the shores of Grand Marais, Minnesota. (Photo by: A&L / Source: Visit Cook County) On June 8, 2020, someone blocked the main road leading into remote Cook County, Minnesota, with a large downed tree. In fraught pandemic times when so much was new, unfamiliar, and yet to-be-determined, the guidance from this hidden messenger rang s...

Copy shortlink: GRAND MARAIS, Minn. – Rewind to August weekends here, when visitors queued up for entry to downtown shops, it was nearly impossible to find a hotel room and one restaurant was selling enough tacos on a given night to feed half of this small town's population. Throughout this hectic summer tourism season, when businesses were at times overwhelmed by traffic, many of Cook County's 5,400 permanent residents worried: Would this be the week the out-of-towners caused a massive COVID-19 outbreak? "It was terrifying at first," said Jill Terrill, who owns Joy ...