State ramps up efforts to test students for COVID-19
Minnesota leaders say they re doubling down on tests for middle and high school students, after an increase in coronavirus cases in children. Author: John Croman Updated: 1:56 AM CDT April 23, 2021
ST PAUL, Minn. After bottoming out in March, COVID hospitalizations are on the rise again in Minnesota. And the average age of those patients is getting younger.
According to data assembled by the Minnesota Department of Health, the average age of COVID patients in this state is now 59, compared to 69 during the second wave surge in November and December. We were seeing elderly before, and now we re seeing people our age the age of our physicians in the hospital, and younger people too definitely, Dr. Natalia Dorf-Biderman of Methodist Hospital told KARE Thursday.