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BREAKING: Minneapolis and St. Paul are immediately lifting the vaccine mandate for restaurants and bars
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On Friday, the CDC revised its covid risk formula.
With this single change, the pandemic abruptly eased going from 90% of the United States in High-Risk Red to less than 30%.
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MN Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan on parenting and children changing their gender...
"When our children tell us who they are, it is our job as grown-ups to listen and to believe them.
That's what it means to be a good parent."
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The flu has been around for over a thousand years...
It abruptly vanished around week 12 (March) of 2020 👇
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The US has spent $9 trillion on covid.
That equates to $2.9 million per covid hospitalization.
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BREAKING: Minneapolis lifts mask mandate, effective immediately.
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We’ve tested half of the entire state of Minnesota.
We’ve tracked over 300,000 infected people.
Throw out the covid models… we have the real data.
Survival rate outside long term care = 99.90%
Under age 60 = 99.98%
Survival rate overall = 99.71%
Find your age below 👇
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More children have been shot in Chicago this year than have died with covid in the entire US.
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Kids at Wildwood Elementary in Minnesota practice the "zombie walk" to keep them safe as they go to the cafeteria.
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It's astonishing that we rolled out a mass vaccination campaign unprecedented in human history... and the CDC decided not to track whether it's working.
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The Supreme Court's clear lack of understanding of the covid situation and realities is sobering.
It reveals a glum reality.
We are living in a world of false perceptions.
Facts are being muted by storylines.
Truth is wilting under the duress of dogmatic thought.
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A new CDC study says mask mandates may work.
It studied mandates in 10 states March-October.
The study stopped in October.
And look what happened after October in the exact same states they were studying 👇
Now, how did they miss that big mess?
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Experts warned about states dropping mask mandates calling it foolish and dangerous...
So what's happened since North Dakota and Iowa dropped their mandates 50 and 30 days ago?
Covid-19 hospitalizations have dropped 75% and 47% respectively.
See below.
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What if?
What if 6 mos ago we were told…
…the death rate isn't 3%, it's 0.3%
…the flu is more deadly than covid for 1/2 the population
…50% of deaths will be in nursing homes
…50% who get it won’t even know it
Would we have shutdown society? Closed schools? Lived in fear?
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@POTUS
Mr. President, please educate yourself instead of playing a political game with people.
According to Triple A, 95% of gas stations are mom and pops owned.
And, on average, they make less than 5 cents per gallon in profit.
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A child in Chicago has a 125x greater risk of being shot than dying with covid.
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The average teacher is 2.16 times more likely to die in a car accident than from covid-19.
Ok, then...
Take away the teachers' cars.
Give back the children's education.
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The retirement age group (65+) make up 78% of all covid deaths and the majority of hospitalizations.
Oddly, we are not mandating vaccines for this higher risk group, but instead we're mandating them for the lower risk groups, students and workers.
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The flu abruptly disappeared in March of 2020.
It disappeared at about the exact same time covid-19 testing and detection ramped up.
See the timing overlay below 👇
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114 kids under age 18 have been shot in Minneapolis 2020-21
0 kids have died with covid in Minneapolis
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Vladimir Putin's Twitter account has not been suspended.
Invading Ukraine is not a violation of Twitter Rules.
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Oregon high school junior breaks 800-meter school record and falls face-first at finish line as mask restricts breathing.
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Across the upper midwest, the case trajectories have been moving in almost perfect unison regardless of state-imposed mandates, lockdowns, and money spent.
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New data from the MN Department of Health.
Since the pandemic began, there have been 57,023 vaccine breakthrough cases and 8,184 reinfections, a 7:1 ratio.
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The first vaccine arrived 4 weeks ago.
Since then…
88% of the vaccine has gone to ages 17-64
And 90% of the deaths have been ages 65+
That's 1,127 of 1,249 deaths in MN ages 65+
Looks like we're all taking the scenic route to saving lives...
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Many people want you to believe that everyone is vulnerable and at risk when it comes to covid-19.
But the truth is that covid-19 health impact varies greatly by age and health condition.
The failure to form policy around this fact has hurt everyone.
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On 4/8/20
@GovTimWalz
extended the stay
@home
order.
"We can say with 95% confidence that we are going to need a minimum of 3,000 beds… that's why we've asked you to stay home."
On that day, ICU capacity was 1,185.
20 months and $4B later, it's 1,158.
Where did the money go?
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Is this really the plan??
Mandate a vaccine that was designed 2 years ago for a virus variant that isn't around anymore and make people get this old vaccine for a new variant that has already shown to evade the vaccine and may be about as potent as a common cold for many people?
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Covid-19 accounted for less than 3.5% of worldwide deaths in 2020.
A campaign of fear tipped the world over.
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According to the CDC, there have been 66 "covid-associated" deaths in ages 5-11 in the past year.
There are 28 million kids in this age group.
Therefore, the annual risk of dying with covid for these kids is 2 in 1 million.
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Iowa & ND dropped mask mandates over 2 months ago.
It was called "foolish" & "Neanderthal thinking"
Since then, cases are flat in ND & down 30% in IA.
In neighboring & enlightened MN, they kept their mask mandate.
MN now has the 2nd highest case rate in the nation.
See 👇👇
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Jan: Vaccines are 95% effective
Feb: mRNA has been around forever
Mar: Breakthroughs are rare
Apr: Get vaccine, save yourself
May: Get vaccine, save others
June: The unvaccinated are the problem
July: We need vaccine mandates
Aug: Maybe they don't work quite as well as we thought
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51% of the US is fully vaccinated.
40% have already had covid.
Yet, covid cases & hospitalizations are 2x higher than the exact same time last year.
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Over 200 million people have now been vaccinated in the US. 68% of adults are fully vaccinated and 78% have had at least one dose.
Yet covid cases and deaths are more than double what they were this same time last year.
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There are a total of 265 people in the hospital with covid-19 in Minnesota, a state of 5.6 million.
That's an average of about 3 per county.
There were more people in the hospital with the flu at this same time during the last flu season.
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@elonmusk
@elonmusk
, Lt. Gov Flanagan has some words for you: "we don’t allow bullies to keep us from doing the right thing."
In Minnesota, we don’t allow bullies to keep us from doing the right thing. As long as
@GovTimWalz
and I are in office, we will continue fighting to ensure our trans neighbors are safe.
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Breaking: outdoor youth sports mask mandate in MN has ended
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Iowa & ND dropped mask mandates months ago.
It was called "foolish" & "Neanderthal thinking"
Since then, cases are down 50% in IA & 16% in ND.
Next door, in enlightened MN, they are keeping their mask mandate.
MN now has the 2nd highest case rate in the nation.
See below 👇
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The top 10 states with the most covid-19 activity right now all have statewide mask mandates.
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Hospital red alert?
Headlines abound… MN officials have labeled the metro area as dangerously short on hospital beds.
In 2017, per MDH, metro hospitals averaged 4,208 beds in use.
Today, 3,910 beds are in use… that's 298 less than a typical non-covid year.
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New 2020 hospital data for MN has been released.
Despite all the headlines about overwhelmed hospitals, emergency room visits were down 15%, hospital admissions were down 10%, and length of stay was flat.
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To all the mitigation zealots out there…
Meet Cornell University, a public health official's dream.
97% vaxed, mask mandate, daily checks, mandatory testing, travel restrictions, contact tracing, quarantines, social distancing rules.
1,000 covid cases in a week and closed.
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The number of Minneapolis police officers has shrunk 45% since 2019.
During this time, violent crime has surged 43%.
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There are 326 total people in the hospital with covid-19 in Minnesota, a state of 5.6 million.
More people were in the hospital with the flu during the last flu season.
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Kids under age 20 shot in Minneapolis in 2020: 113
Kids who died with covid in Minneapolis in 2020: 0
Meanwhile Minneapolis voted on a measure to disband the police department while the CDC approved covid vaccines for kids.
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Kids under age 15 who died with covid in the US in 2020-2021: 499
Kids under age 15 who died with influenza in the US in 2018-2019: 821
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The largest randomized clinical trial on mask use was published today.
The study failed to show masks were effective.
Wearing a mask "did not reduce, at conventional levels of statistical significance, the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection...."
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Defying warnings from health experts, Iowa and North Dakota dropped mask mandates months ago.
Since ending the mandates, covid cases have declined 45% in IA and 35% in ND.
Neighboring state, Minnesota, kept their mask mandate.
Covid cases are on the rise there.
See below.
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A CDC analysis of 378,048 death certificates found 35% of covid deaths in children may have been inaccurately assigned to covid.
See below 👇
Full CDC study link:
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Somehow we went from Delta "may" be more deadly to Delta is "definitely" more deadly.
Did I miss a study... or are we just making this stuff up now?
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MN is on red-alert, short on staffed ICU beds.
The state received over $4 billion in covid aid.
How much money is that?
If MN leaders had used just 5% of this for nurses, every ICU nurse could have been given a $100,000 bonus.
Instead, $100,000 bonuses are going to teens 👇
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NEW: CDC releases leading causes of death for children
The consequences of COVID policies become evident.
Homicides and suicides were up 30%.
Drug overdoses spiked 84%.
Respiratory diseases and all other causes remained stable.
Full report:
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@POTUS
The "Inflation Reduction Act" includes:
$369B for energy/climate change
$124B for IRS tax enforcement
$64B for Obamacare
Higher taxes on companies
It takes lofty arrogance to tell Americans that this is the list that will lower their gas & milk prices.
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@MarkRuffalo
The earth has been around for 4.5 billion years.
Humans for 0.01% of that time.
Human-made carbon emissions and climate record-keeping for 0.000003% of that time.
The earth's temperature now is cooler than its average.
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In the past year…
50 states issued over 2000 executive orders bypassing legislatures.
Hundreds of election rules were altered by mandate.
Over 50 executive orders, the most ever in a first month, were signed by the new President.
Our representative government is unraveling…
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In 2020 and 2021, 3 kids under age 20 died with covid in Minnesota.
In 2018 and 2019, 21 kids under age 20 died with influenza and pneumonia.
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This pandemic doesn't end when everyone is vaccinated.
It ends when every adult who wants a vaccine can get a vaccine.
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Covid-19 killed less than 0.03% of humans in 2020.
The winds of fear tipped a wobbly world over.
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Over 80% of deer tested in Iowa had covid-19
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MN Governor
@GovTimWalz
signs a "gender-affirming" executive order to support transgender procedures.
By his side at the photo op…
A 12yo transgender child, a young boy, a little girl holding a stuffed animal, and his Lt Governor wearing a shirt with a knife on it 👇
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Kids under age 5 who died with covid in the US in 2020-2021: 273
Kids under age 5 who died with influenza in the US in 2018-2019: 576
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An opportunity to build trust… lost…
MN officials made a wrong choice today.
They know cases & positivity were declining well before a "pause" began & continued to decline at a similar rate thereafter 👇
Yet they chose to insist the pause worked.
People deserve honesty.
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No matter whether you vote democrat or republican...
How is it acceptable that after 20 months and over $4 billion in aid, MN hospitals are not ready for covid?
Where's the media? Where are the tough questions? Where's the outrage?
This failure will cost hundreds of lives.
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In 2020, 4x more kids under age 15 in the U.S. died from drowning than with covid-19.
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There is a total of 1 person in the ICU with covid-19 in the entire state of North Dakota.
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57 year-old Gov. Walz of MN attends a Journey concert maskless with 14,000 screaming fans.
Meanwhile, 20 year-old UofM students and 7 year-old kids in Minneapolis & St. Paul are still wearing masks in classrooms of 25 students.
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The 2009-10 Swine Flu was 6x more deadly for children than 2020-21 Covid-19.
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MN Governor
@GovTimWalz
signs a "gender-affirming" executive order to support transgender procedures.
By his side at the photo op…
A 12yo transgender child, a young boy, a little girl holding a stuffed animal, and his Lt Governor wearing a shirt with a knife on it 👇
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The CDC removed 416 pediatric covid deaths, 31% of the total, from their dashboard on Tuesday.
They added a note deep in the footnotes and said it was due to "a coding logic error."
There was no press release nor media report.
Source:
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Wonder what your covid risk is?
We’ve tracked nearly a half million people inside & outside long term care.
Throw out the covid models… we have the real data.
Survival rate outside long term care ~ 99.86%
Under age 60 ~ 99.97%
Overall ~ 99.61%
Find your age below 👇
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Today, a Minnesota judge rejected a parent group's attempt to force a statewide mask mandate for Minnesota schools.
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“We have just 1% of hospital beds available in the metro region… Across the state we have more hospitals reporting that they have zero... beds available.” -
@mnhealth
After 2 years and over $4 billion in funding, if this is not a complete failure of our state leaders, what is?
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This year's
#SOTU
address was mask-optional, a stark contrast to last year.
"We've reached a new moment" President Biden said.
Despite the optics and proclamations, covid cases and deaths are twice as high today than when the President addressed Congress last year.
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Three years ago,
@GovTimWalz
issued Minnesota's "stay at home" order.
The state was shutdown for 51 days.
Since then, business & nightlife have not recovered, student test scores have declined, drug & alcohol deaths have spiked, and a teen mental health crisis has emerged.
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After a year of government imposed shutdowns and mandates, there is still scant evidence that the states with all these restrictions saved any lives.
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"We hear the statistics that very few children get sick. First and foremost I dismiss that." -
@GovTimWalz
Truth doesn't vanish when you plug your ears & close your eyes.
According to MDH, 0.1% of kids <20 in MN have been hospitalized with covid. 4 out of 1.4 million have died.
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Last year, we had mask mandates. They didn't stop the spread. They didn't stop lockdowns. They didn't stop schools from closing.
This year, we have vaccines. They haven't stopped the spread. They haven't stopped mask mandates. And they haven't stopped schools from closing.
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For two years, covid alarmists have presumed their righteousness.
What is noble about spending two years chasing an unachievable goal... scaring families, hurting children, destroying livelihoods, and pushing 100 million into poverty?
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Hospitals overwhelmed by covid patients?
Never.
In fact, since the pandemic began, there has only been 1 month that had higher hospital admissions compared to 2019.
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There are a total of 237 people in the hospital with covid-19 in Minnesota, a state of 5.6 million.
That's about 1% of hospital capacity.
There were twice as many people in the hospital with the flu at this same time during the last flu season.
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NEW: The U.S. Senate voted 57 to 40 to overturn the federal mask mandate on airplanes. President Biden vows to veto.
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Jon Rahm, the leader by six strokes, finds out he tested positive for COVID-19.
He is escorted off the course by PGA officials and forced to withdraw.
He had no symptoms and was on track to win $1.6 million.
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Worried about losing your child to covid?
In MN this year, 1 child has died w/ covid.
During this same time, 3 have died from drowning, 3 from respiratory infections, 3 from ATV accidents, 2 from bicycle accidents, 9 from car accidents, and 225 from other things.
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Cover your ears if you wish: vaccinations & masks will not end covid-19.
Let's accept reality, not chase fantasy.
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First Omicron case reported in the US yesterday.
First Omicron case reported in Minnesota today.
Both fully vaccinated.
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78 employees (including 37 professors) make over $300,000 per year at the University of Minnesota.
But not the librarian. The librarian makes $278,000.
In March, the University asked for a $98 million taxpayer bailout to help with expenses.
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"Doctor, the places we are seeing the biggest spikes right now… are not the places that have relaxed mask mandates and relaxed lockdowns… so what's the correlation between lockdowns and new cases?"
Hmmmm, good question Chris…
So… what say you, Dr. Osterholm?
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In 2020 and 2021, 3 kids under age 20 have died with covid in Minnesota.
In 2018 and 2019, 35 kids under age 20 died of other infectious diseases.
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ND and IA defied expert warnings & dropped their mask mandate weeks ago.
A neighboring state, MN, kept their mask mandate.
Since ending the mandates, hospitalizations are down 75% in ND and 47% in IA.
In MN, over the same periods, they’re down 63% and 38%.
See below.
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I analyzed 25,000 MN death certificates through July.
Of those with a covid cause of death listed:
> 89% had a non-covid underlying cause of death or contributing factor
> 20%+ would be attributed to a non-covid cause of death, including dementia, falls, frailty & other causes
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North Dakota and Iowa dropped mask mandates weeks ago.
What's happened with hospitalizations?
Since ending the mandates, hospitalizations are down 79% in ND and 41% in IA.
A neighboring state, Minnesota, kept their mask mandate.
See the trends of all three below.
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Both Iowa and Minnesota are working to make their states the best for families and kids.
The contrast in approach couldn't be more stark.
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The U.S. has spent over $10 trillion on covid.
This is equal to the entire economies of the UK, France, Italy, Spain, and Canada combined.
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