Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's news conference with state health officials -- once again being conducted by phone because Walz is self-quarantining -- is starting now.
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Minnesota Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm says while the number of confirmed cases is an undercount, she's more confident in hospitalization data. 25 hospitalized since the start of the outbreak, 15 currently hospitalized, 7 in ICU.
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Homeland security director Joe Kelly says state officials are planning for alternative health care facilities to prevent hospitals -- especially ICUs -- from "being overrun." Earlier, we heard Minnesota has 243 ICU beds available.
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Of Minnesota's 149,000+ unemployment filings in the past eight days: -48,540 from food prep/services -10,844 personal care/service -10,657 sales/service -9,271 office/administrative
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Business closures have affected more women and the 22-29 age group disproportionately, economic development commissioner Steve Grove says.
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Infectious diseases director Kris Ehresmann says Minnesota is only seeing clustering of cases within households, not within communities.
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Gov. Tim Walz says he will extend the bar/restaurant/places of amusement order beyond Friday, when it is scheduled to expire.
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Gov. Tim Walz says he isn't getting pressure from the business community not to issue a stay-at-home order. "They’re not putting pressure on (me), they’re bringing up valid points."
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"This will go beyond Easter and it doesn't do us any good to pretend it's not," Gov. Tim Walz says, refuting President Trump who said today he wants to "have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter."
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Gov. Tim Walz says he is not ready to set a new date for how long bars, restaurants and places of amusement will be closed -- but reiterates the closures WILL be extended beyond Friday.
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