About 40% of new COVID-19 cases in Minnesota are people in their 20s

Another round of severe storms in sight. We’ll likely see two separate storm waves starting tonight, with the first one mostly hitting northwestern Minnesota and lingering into early Tuesday morning. The second wave could hit the Twin Cities Tuesday morning, with scattered storms possibly lingering through the day. Read more on the Updraft blog.

Just wearing ANY mask doesn’t protect you from the virus. Here are tips for choosing the right one, and wearing it properly. As Gov. Tim Walz is expected to make a decision this week about a statewide mandate, you may soon be required to don a mask while in public. Whether it’s for your health or for others, health experts say it’s important to wear one that’s effective, and wear it properly.

Dr. Michael Bess of UnitedHealthcare says: Disposable masks generally aren’t effective and you should make or buy reusable, multi-layered cloth masks and machine-wash them after every use. Find more tips from Bess and other experts here.

After decades of criticism, Washington’s NFL team drops its name and logo. Arguably the most polarizing name in North American professional sports is gone at a time of reckoning over racial injustice, iconography and racism in the U.S. The team said it is “retiring” the name and the Indian head logo after decades-long criticism that they are offensive to Native Americans.

COVID-19 in Minnesota today: About 40 percent of new cases are among Minnesotans in their 20s. With several bar-driven clusters reported recently, the age group now has the most confirmed cases, approaching 10,000 in Minnesota since the outbreak started. The median age of Minnesotans infected has been trending down in recent weeks and is now below 38 years old and state officials are now expecting to see second- and third-generation transmission cascading from those young adult cases.