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The CDC said healthy people can take a break from wearing masks a day after Minneapolis and St. Paul lifted their public indoor mask mandates. After a nationwide spike in COVID-19 cases and deaths in mid-January, the numbers are plummeting. In Hennepin County, we haven't had such low numbers since August.
The CDC released its COVID-19 Community Levels, a new tool to help communities decide what prevention steps to take. Levels can be low, medium, or high and are determined by looking at data around hospital beds being used, hospital admissions, and the total number of new COVID-19 cases in an area.
Hennepin County is currently at a medium prevention level. Ramsey County is at a low prevention level.
According to the Star Tribune, Mayor Jacob Frey will ultimately appoint a replacement to chair the housing authority after the previous chair he appointed resigned from the position. According to the Sahan Journal, Frey appointed Sharmarke Issa to chair the board of the housing authority in 2019 and again in 2021. Issa is the co-owner of an apartment complex that the federal government alleges was bought with money meant to feed children.
Frey's now former senior aide is a co-owner of the same apartment complex and stopped working for Frey two weeks ago.
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