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watch live With the second COVID-19 vaccine by Moderna under review for likely approval by the FDA over the weekend, the state expects to receive 94,800 shipments of that vaccine by the middle of next week, doses targeted for residents of long-term care, especially in outstate areas without access to ultracold freezers to store the vaccine. Gov. Tim Walz on Friday confirmed on WCCO radio that the state has been notified its shipment next week from Pfizer will be 40% less than initially projected, dropping supplies from a projected 58,000 doses to 33,150. The undershipments are happening acro...

Copy shortlink: More than 1,000 health care workers were vaccinated against COVID-19 this week in Minnesota, but the good news was offset by a 45% drop in the expected supply of vaccine to the state next week. Minnesota received 46,800 doses of the new Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine as planned this week, but learned that it would be receiving only 33,150 doses next week compared with the 58,000 it had anticipated. Reduced deliveries upset state health officials across the country, because it will delay the use of vaccine against a pandemic wave that surged in the Midwest this...

First shots given to exhausted frontline personnel, as state records another 65 deaths, 2775 cases 4:35 pm, Dec. 18, 2020 × Dr. Joseph Corser, emergency department physician, receives the initial dose of the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine from Rachael Jaranson on Thursday afternoon at Sanford Bemidji Medical Center. (Jillian Gandsey / Bemidji Pioneer) ROCHESTER, Minn. — At the end of the first week of vaccination in-state — three full days before the earliest date health officials had expected to begin vaccinating front-line workers — the state of Minnesota on Friday, Dec. 18, repor...

First shots given to exhausted frontline personnel, as state records another 65 deaths, 2775 cases 4:35 pm, Dec. 18, 2020 × Dr. Joseph Corser, emergency department physician, receives the initial dose of the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine from Rachael Jaranson on Thursday afternoon at Sanford Bemidji Medical Center. (Jillian Gandsey / Bemidji Pioneer) ROCHESTER, Minn. — At the end of the first week of vaccination in-state — three full days before the earliest date health officials had expected to begin vaccinating front-line workers — the state of Minnesota on Friday, Dec. 18, repor...

Photos: Mayo's 'super six' receive first dose of COVID-19 vaccine The "super six" consisted of Registered Nurse, Abigail Carter, a Medical ICU nurse; Registered Nurse, Meera Patel, a Medical ICU nurse; Adam Skow, a respiratory therapist; Registered Nurse, Madeline Weiman, a Medical ICU nurse; Dr. Sean Caples, a pulmonologist and critical care medicine specialist; who all five treated a patient with the first suspected case of COVID-19, which turned out to be negative; and Dr. Casey Clements, an emergency medicine physician, who diagnosed the first case of COVID-19 in Rochester. ...