Jan. 28, 2021
Tonight will be mostly cloudy, with a chance of flurries. Lows will be from 7 to 15, although near zero along Lake Superior. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with highs in the 20s and a chance of freezing drizzle overnight tomorrow night. Find the latest from Updraft. The state is vaccinating more people 65 and older today under a pilot program based on a lottery. This time, Gov. Tim Walz was on hand as shots went into arms at the Earle Brown Center in Brooklyn Center. He said it was a sign that the system was working, and also said a new national response is taking shape. "This week is a change for I think the whole country — for the first time since this has started — we had a conference call with all the governors and the White House," Walz said Thursday. "We actually now know what we're going to get for the next three weeks."
Health commissioner Jan Malcolm said state education officials were trying to fix problems in vaccine sign ups for educators after vaccine supplies ran shorter than expected. Thousands of teachers and child care workers were being vaccinated today, including at a new site in downtown St. Paul.
In other COVID news today, the Health Department on Thursday reported another 1,335 confirmed or probable COVID-19 cases — along with 16 more deaths. The seven-day rolling average for new vaccinations topped 19,000, the highest point since vaccinations started in late December, and nearly double where that figure stood a week ago.
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