COVID-19: Coverage of the pandemic from MPR News

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During quarantine, keep your friends close – from afar
How long has it been since you've seen your best friend? Before the COVID-19 pandemic forced many of us into isolation, loneliness was already a huge problem in the United States, affecting more than half of adults. And now we're seeing even less of each other.
Coming up: A doctor’s view of the coronavirus pandemic and  the medical field
Doctors, nurses and other medical staff are on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, putting themselves at risk as they try to save lives. We talk with a doctor about what she’s seeing and about her view on the future of public health efforts.
Coronavirus entered my father’s nursing home and nobody warned me. I did not get the chance to save him.
Reporter Jan Ransom’s father was the fourth resident of his nursing home to get COVID-19. Nobody told her about the first, so she couldn’t move him before he got sick. “I think that’s very unfair,” her father told her a week before he died.
Study raises questions about false negatives from quick COVID-19 test
New research suggests the Abbott ID NOW test, which produces results in less than 15 minutes, is the most likely among common tests to reassure people they are not infected when they really are.
As public health officials look ahead to a potential surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations in Minnesota, they are having to make tough decisions about where to send valuable resources.