New state website promises to alert Minnesotans when they can get vaccine

An online enrollment form asks for personal data including age, occupation, and pre-existing health conditions. Supplies of the COVID-19 vaccine are still well short of demand, and may be even shorter because of weather-related shipping delays. This is the MPR News afternoon update for Feb. 18, 2021. Hosted by Nina Moini. Theme music by Gary Meister.

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