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Zelms, now deputy city manager in Mankato, was selected to lead the city’s day-to-day operations in a unanimous vote Monday afternoon by the Rochester City Council.
With Covid-19 cases remaining high in the area, local leaders have announced plans to merge the day and evening warming centers with a temporary shelter inside the Mayo Civic Center.
After a month of increasingly sobering statistics related to Olmsted County’s Covid-19 situation, Wednesday’s weekly report showed slight improvements in new case numbers and the rate of positive tests. Still, though, health officials remain on edge, with fears looming of further spikes in cases related to Thanksgiving celebrations.
With rates of new cases hovering around 100 and percent-positive rates sitting just below 10 percent, Mayo officials say the situation surrounding Covid-19 is “stabilizing” — but it is not likely to stay that way for long.
Two young Rochester entrepreneurs received national recognition Tuesday, as Forbes honored the Nanodropper team of founders with a spot on their annual ‘30 Under 30’ list recognizing high achievers in health care.
Rochester Public Schools Superintendent Michael Muñoz has apologized to staff for plagiarizing a ‘thank you’ letter that went out last week — calling it a “bad choice” that has “damaged your respect and trust in me.”
Officials are concerned the holiday break could lead to another surge in cases and hospitalizations two to three weeks from now.
A review of the letter reveals that every sentence between the first and last line of the email was lifted from as many as five other sources. In some cases, entire paragraphs were copied word-for-word without attribution.
More than a quarter of a million dollars in gifts exclusively from downtown Rochester businesses will go to Mayo Clinic staff over the coming weeks, thanks to a successful collaboration between the Clinic, White Space, and the Rochester Downtown Alliance.
The selection of two female finalists means 2021 will mark the first time in history that the positions of mayor, council president, city administrator, county board chair, and county administrator will all be held by women.
After quickly rolling out a series of Covid-19 tests at the onset of the pandemic, Mayo Clinic Laboratories announced the successful development of two new tests Monday afternoon — one designed to test asymptomatic people who want peace of mind, and the other to save lives after a Covid-positive patient has already been admitted to the hospital.
Mayo Clinic says it is resuming work on capital investment projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars in the Rochester area, after pausing the majority of new projects for nearly six months due to the pandemic.
In an effort to “help vaccinate the world,” Mayo Clinic announced the creation of a local Covid-19 vaccine registry Monday — intended to give Rochester-area residents a shot at being a small part of large-scale vaccine trial runs, before they are distributed worldwide.
Olmsted County has topped 800 cases in each of the past two weeks, with regional care providers also reporting a sharp uptick in hospitalizations. Earlier this week, Mayo had 32 patients in intensive care due to Covid.
After months of spirited discussion, the Rochester School Board voted Tuesday to move back start times for all district students — welcome news for sleepy students, who for years have been waking up earlier than nearly all of their statewide counterparts.
In a virtual announcement reminiscent of March and April, the first days of the fight against Covid-19, Gov. Tim Walz officially ‘turned the dials’ backward for Minnesota, limiting person-to-person interaction in response to the worst two weeks of the outbreak since those dark spring days.
Mayo Clinic’s Covid-specific intensive care has reached max capacity as Clinic staff scramble to create new ICU space and slow elective surgeries in the face of Rochester’s current Covid-19 spike.
Olmsted County Public Health is asking residents who test positive for Covid-19 to take some contact tracing capabilities into their own hands, as the current spike in cases overwhelms the department’s ability to adequately investigate all new cases in the area.
The district is now down to five finalists in the selection process — with the final opportunity for the community to weigh in happening now through November 29.
The City of Rochester is putting a temporary halt to activities insides city-owned recreational facilities, including Graham Arena, the Rochester Recreation Center and the National Volleyball Center, as cases of Covid-19 continue to spike in Olmsted County and across the country.
