Yesterday President Biden paused to mark 1 million COVID-19 deaths nationwide since the start of the pandemic.
This includes over 12,550 here in Minnesota.
APM Research Lab’s Color of Coronavirus project shows that Indigenous Americans have been hit especially hard throughout the pandemic, so this week’s update concludes with a brief focus on Indigenous deaths due to COVID-19 in Minnesota.
Minnesota continues to make its way through a spring COVID-19 wave characterized by increasing case counts and hospitalizations, but – as of yet – relatively low ICU cases and new deaths.