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President Joe Biden speaks before presenting Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor awards to fourteen recipients, during an event in the East Room of the White House, Monday, May 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden offering additional 8 free COVID-19 tests to public

FDA clears COVID booster shot for healthy kids ages 5 to 11
FILE - A nurse holds a vial of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, right, and a vial of the vaccine for adults, which has a different colored label, at a vaccination station in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. U.S. regulators authorized a COVID-19 booster shot for healthy 5- to 11-year-olds on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, hoping an extra vaccine dose will enhance their protection as infections once again are on the rise. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
Report: Trump officials, meat companies knew workers at risk
FILE - In this May 7, 2020 file photo, workers leave the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Logansport, Ind. At the height of the pandemic, the meat processing industry worked closely with political appointees in the Trump administration to stave off health restrictions and keep processing plants open even as COVID-19 spread rapidly among workers, according to a new Congressional report released Thursday, May 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
Biden marks COVID 'tragic milestone' in US at global summit
The American flag flies at half-staff at the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 12, 2022, as the Biden administration commemorates 1 million American lives lost due to COVID-19. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
North Korea confirms 1st COVID outbreak, Kim orders lockdown
In this image made from video broadcasted by North Korea's KRT, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wears a face mask on state television during a meeting acknowledging the country's first case of COVID-19 Thursday, May 12, 2022, in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea imposed a nationwide lockdown Thursday to control its first acknowledged COVID-19 outbreak after holding for more than two years to a widely doubted claim of a perfect record keeping out the virus that has spread to nearly every place in the world. (KRT via AP)
Minnesota House Speaker Hortman says she’s COVID-positive
Minnesota House Speaker Hortman says she’s COVID-positive
RPS updates COVID guidelines amid resurgance of cases in schools
RPS updates COVID guidelines amid resurgance of cases in schools
Rochester restaurants grow in midst of pandemic
Rochester restaurants grow in midst of pandemic
Mask requirement returns to Longfellow Elementary after reaching COVID threshold
Mask requirement returns to Longfellow Elementary after reaching COVID threshold
WHO: Nearly 15 million deaths associated with COVID-19
FILE - Health workers and relatives carry the body of a COVID-19 victim for cremation in Jammu, India, Sunday, April 25, 2021. The World Health Organization is estimating that nearly 15 million people were killed either by the coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years. That is more than double its official death toll. The U.N. health agency says most of the fatalities were in Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas. In a report released Thursday, May 5, 2022 WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus describes the figure as
Mayo Clinic Doctor says new COVID variant evades vaccines
Mayo Clinic Doctor says new COVID variant evades vaccines
Minnesota COVID-19 update: Monday
Minnesota COVID-19 update: Monday
Minnesota COVID-19 update: Friday
Minnesota COVID-19 update: Friday
Minnesota COVID-19 update: Thursday
Minnesota COVID-19 update: Tuesday
Minnesota COVID-19 update: Tuesday
EXPLAINER: COVID-19 pills must be taken within 5 days
FILE - In this photo provided by Pfizer, a technician handles one of the company's COVID-19 Paxlovid pills. COVID-19 patients have two new treatment options that can be taken at home. But that convenience comes with a catch: The pills have to be taken as soon as possible once symptoms appear. U.S. regulators authorized the pills from Pfizer and Merck late 2021. (Pfizer via AP, File)
Administration expands availability of COVID antiviral pill
FILE - President Joe Biden speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House, in Washington, Nov. 19, 2021. Biden's administration is taking steps to expand availability of the life-saving COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid. It's trying to reassure doctors that there is ample supply for people at high risk of severe illness or death from the virus. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Minnesota COVID-19 update: Monday
Minnesota COVID-19 update: Monday
Rio's dazzling Carnival parade resumes after pandemic hiatus
Members of the Imperatriz Leopoldinense samba school perform during the Carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, April 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
UK patient had COVID-19 for 505 days straight, study shows
FILE - This undated, colorized electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, indicated in yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, indicated in blue/pink, cultured in the lab. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. On Thursday, April 21, 2022, scientists reported a U.K. patient with a severely weakened immune system had COVID-19 for almost a year and a half, underscoring the importance of protecting vulnerable people from the coronavirus. (NIAID-RML via AP, File)
Minnesota COVID-19 update: Friday
Minnesota COVID-19 update: Friday
Minnesota COVID-19 update: Thursday
Minnesota COVID-19 update: Thursday
Minnesota COVID-19 update: Wednesday
Minnesota COVID-19 update: Wednesday
Minnesota COVID-19 update: Tuesday
Minnesota COVID-19 update: Tuesday
Minnesota COVID-19 update: Monday
Minnesota COVID-19 update: Monday
It's not over: COVID-19 cases are on the rise again in US
FILE - A sign advising visitors to don face coverings stands outside the main entrance to UCHealth University of Colorado hospital Friday, April 1, 2022, in Aurora, Colo. COVID cases are starting to rise again in the United States, with numbers up in most states and up steeply in several. One expert says he expects more of a
Minneapolis schools drop COVID mask mandate
Minneapolis schools drop COVID mask mandate

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Addressing rising anxiety rates in kids

Addressing rising anxiety rates in kids

With May being Mental Health Awareness Month, health experts at Mayo Clinic are talking about the mental health affects the pandemic has had on kids and teens.

Multiple factors impacting the projected decline of RPS enrollment
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Hormel Foods ranked one of the top corporate citizens in U.S. for 2022
Rochester voting locations make changes ahead of special primary election
$5,000 in copper wire stolen from CenturyLink work site
Plainview man arrested after burglary of brother's home
Former Minneapolis officer pleads guilty in death of George Floyd
Rochester man arrested for racially motivated assault
Albert Lea Public Library could eliminate late fines on youth materials

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In this photo provided by the North Korean government, a doctor visits a family during an activity to raise public awareness of the COVID-19 prevention measures, in Pyongyang, North Korea Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads:

North Korea's suspected COVID-19 caseload nears 2 million

Biden invokes Defense Production Act for formula shortage
Moms seeking formula tire of those who say, just breastfeed
US case of monkeypox reported in Massachusetts man
Jill Biden, Selena Gomez lead talk on youth mental health
Portugal finds 5 monkeypox cases in men as outbreak spreads
Ashley Biden positive for COVID-19, skips Latin America trip
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