Local COVID-19 patients at high risk of severe cases receive antibody transfusion treatment
Local COVID-19 patients at high risk of severe cases receive antibody transfusion treatment By Lauren Andrego | January 20, 2021 at 10:34 PM CST - Updated January 20 at 11:04 PM
NORTH MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) Meet Tom and Barb Kiffe, 86-year-old high school sweethearts of Mankato High School Class of 1952 and married for 64 years.
Now they reside at Oak Terrace Assisted Living.
Talk to them for a minute and you’d never know they recovered from COVID-19 earlier this month.
“I had a little fever at first,” Tom said. “Then I had a sore throat. And then just kind of, listless, you know, not bad. I just wasn’t myself.”
Mankato boyâs wish comes true thanks to generosity of others Ten-year-old Jacob Andrade s dream of owning a dog came true thanks to Sunshine Foundation and a grant from the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation. (Source: Sunshine Foundation) By KEYC Staff | January 19, 2021 at 10:39 PM CST - Updated January 19 at 10:39 PM
MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) â A Mankato boyâs dream recently came true through the generosity of others.
Jacob Andrade, 10, is diagnosed with Touretteâs Syndrome, uveitis, trauma. His dream was to one day own a dog.
Thanks to the Sunshine Foundation and a grant from the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation, Jacobâs dream became a reality.
Vaccine pilot program set up to train counties for mass vaccinations
Vaccine pilot program set up to train counties for mass vaccinations By Lauren Andrego | January 19, 2021 at 11:31 PM CST - Updated January 19 at 11:50 PM
MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) Nine counties across Minnesota will soon begin a COVID-19 vaccination pilot program, and North Mankato will host one of those sites.
Just hours after registration opened Tuesday, demand far outpaced the doses available. But health officials want you to know the point of this pilot program is not to vaccinate every person over age 65.
“This is not a true mass vaccine clinic,” Nicollet County Public Health and Human Services Director Cassandra Sassenberg said. “It’s really intended to get started, but really to learn.”
Walz announces pilot program to begin vaccinating school workers, others
Walz announces pilot program to begin vaccinating school workers, others By Bernadette Heier | January 18, 2021 at 6:57 PM CST - Updated January 18 at 10:25 PM
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KEYC) Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says the state will open nine community sites this week to vaccinate adults over 65, pre-kindergarten through 12th-grade educators, school staff and child care workers.
The program announced Monday expands the rollout beyond the first high-priority group that includes health care workers and long-term care residents and staff, who began receiving doses last month.
The announcement comes after the Democratic governor criticized the federal government for uncertainty over the supply of doses. Walz says the state is receiving about 60,000 doses per week and it’s unclear when that supply will increase further.