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Inside our care homes, Minnesota is more dangerous than average. Outside, it is safer

“Yesterday, the Minnesota Department of Health announced that 17 more people had died of Covid-19. Once again, a high proportion, 13 of them, had died in long-term care or assisted living facilities. Of Minnesota’s 748 Covid-19 deaths so far, 608 – 81% – have occurred in long-term care or assisted living facilities.”
Thanks to John Phelan and The Center of the American Experiment.
Botched COVID-19 testing at a St. Paul nursing home elicits anger, apologies

“In what one health official acknowledged was “a disaster,” the test samples from Episcopal Church Home were later ruined because they were not stored in coolers while being transported to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester.”
Minnesota “Nursing homes accepting infected patients, even as death toll mounts.”

“Despite the devastating death toll, Minnesota nursing homes are still being allowed by state regulators to admit coronavirus patients who have been discharged from hospitals.”
We wondered when this would finally come out. Minnesota has the highest rate of deaths in nursing homes, in the nation.
New Jersey Democrats Silent on Phil Murphy Putting Coronavirus Patients in Nursing Homes

“During the coronavirus pandemic, Murphy instituted a controversial order to require that New Jersey nursing homes take coronavirus patients.”
Trump Administration Awards Contract to Shift Drug Manufacturing to the United States

“The White House announced Tuesday a decision to award a $354 million contract to a Virginia pharmaceutical manufacturer to shift drug manufacturing to the United States.”
In the Race for Immunity, Sweden Leads the Pack

“In a pandemic, there is no substitute for immunity, because immunity provides the best protection against reinfection.”
HUGE SCANDAL: Oregon Changes Hundreds Of Republican Ballots To “Non Partisan” Denying GOP Voters the Right To Participate In Primary

“Disturbing news is coming out of Oregon, as hundreds of people are reporting that their voter registration was switched from Republican to non affiliated without their knowledge or permission.
Oregon is entirely vote-by-mail, and ballots were sent out in the last week of April, and due this Tuesday at 8:00 PM. Many were shocked to open their ballot to find that they were no longer with the party they thought they were with, and they received non partisan ballots. As Oregon is a closed primary state, this effectively denies these people the right to vote in the party’s primary that they thought they were registered as.”
Trump Sends Scathing Letter To WHO: If ‘Major’ Changes Are Not Immediately Made U.S. Will Permanently Cut Funding, May Withdraw Membership

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The letter listed many of the WHO’s failings in managing the pandemic and then stated, “Perhaps worse than all these failings is that we know that the World Health Organization could have done so much better. Just a few years ago, under the direction of a different Director-General, the World Health Organization showed the world how much it has to offer.”"
'Null and void': Baker County judge tosses out Oregon Gov. Brown's coronavirus restrictions


