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Muhammad Masood, 28, was arrested at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport on Thursday while trying to get to Syria to “fight on the front line as well as help the wounded brothers,” federal authorities said.
The additional capacity, the Clinic said, is being made possible by using three high-throughput diagnostic processors from Roche Diagnostics. The instruments are being used in addition to the COVID-19 testing developed by Mayo Clinic's Clinical Virology Laboratory.
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Amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, the Rochester Community Warming Center is ramping up its efforts to ensure individuals facing homelessness have a safe place to stay overnight.
Mayo Clinic President and CEO Dr. Gianrico Farrugia said Wednesday that the Rochester-based health system is ready to handle a potential influx of patients seeking care for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.
Mayo Clinic announced Tuesday afternoon it plans to begin deferring “all elective care that can be deferred for eight or more weeks.” The deferments will begin to take effect March 23 at all Mayo Clinic locations nationwide, including Mayo Clinic Health System.
The childcare services are being offered in response to an executive order requiring Minnesota districts to provide emergency childcare for parents on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rochester City Council Member Nick Campion is asking several businesses advertising St. Patrick’s Day parties to rethink their plans.
The Rochester City Council approved a sweeping set of measures on Monday in response to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.
A Mayo spokesperson said the specimen collection area will be similar to the one outside the Northwest Clinic. The new temporary site, she said, will accommodate ambulatory patients on the downtown campus.
As part of the order, theaters, museums, fitness centers and bowling alleys — essentially any place where people congregate — will also be required to close.
A number of Rochester businesses have begun closing down public areas and switching to take-out only amid the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak.
Rochester Public Schools says it will be closing schools from Wednesday, March 18 until Monday, April 6 to address ongoing concerns over the coronavirus outbreak.
The first round of samples from Mayo Clinic’s coronavirus test have all come back negative, according to one top Clinic official.
Mayo began making the test available to its clinicians on Thursday. In the coming days, the Clinic will begin offering the test to other providers.
Mayo Clinic President and CEO Dr. Gianrico Farrugia flew to Washington, D.C. this week to discuss the nation’s ongoing response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Mayo Clinic has begun testing for COVID-19 at a temporary drive-thru area outside of its family clinic in northwest Rochester. The screening comes as Olmsted County reports its first case of the coronavirus.
Test results came back positive Tuesday night through the state public health laboratory. It is the first case of the coronavirus to be reported in southeast Minnesota.
Smartasset.com released their yearly rankings for America’s most recession-resistant cities last week, tabulated through nine different metrics to find a final score. Rochester ended up with a final score of 74.8 — good for the 13th best score out of the 264 largest cities in the country.
This year’s March Madness will have a local flavor to it, as former John Marshall standout and current Duke Blue Devil Matthew Hurt heads to the NCAA postseason for the first time.
