And the one that matters the most is the fewest deaths. We ranked near the top as far as testing, as far as cases that we have in the lowest. And because of what you’ve done, you put us in a better spot than a lot of other folks. The modeling was a little bit wide because we hadn’t seen a lot of things that were out there, but we knew early on like every respiratory disease, if you could stop that interaction with folks, if you could do things like masking and social distancing, and if you could limit unpredictable gatherings of people outside their immediate family, you had an opportunity to slow it.īut we knew all along back in March and April of last year, I used a statement where I said our only vaccine is our ability to social distance and mitigate, that is no longer true. We at the beginning of this pandemic knew very little about this new respiratory disease. It also meant understanding that there was going to be economic hits to certain industries, making sure that we were providing the support for them, making sure that there was economics incentives there, and that we were trying to make sure we brought everyone through this.
That meant making those hard decisions, but understanding that public health is dependent on each and every one of us making good decisions that impact our neighbors in a positive way also. We’ve got the opportunity and we want to just take a few minutes to walk through that.įirst of all, our goal when we first started talking back in March was to balance safety, our wellbeing and our livelihoods. And today we want to talk about where we’re at and as all Minnesotans know, the job’s not done until it’s done, but the plan to finish it is on us now. It’s been a long journey, but we’ve did the things that needed to be done. The teams across state government, our private sector partners and I especially want to say a thank you to those frontline health workers who have been there, childcare providers, folks who processed our food or served, worked at the grocery stores, so many, and then to you Minnesotans. They have included a lot of tough decisions and a lot of very challenging impacts on your families, both health wise, emotionally, and certainly economically too. I would note that there is a whole team of folks over these last 15 months as we’ve stood in front of you and tried to make sure that we got you as much information possible to keep you, your families and our state safe. We described as a long dark winter, 15 months ago, I’m joined today by very familiar faces, Commissioner of Minnesota Department of Health, Jan Malcolm will be with you after I brief a little bit and the Commissioner of the Department of Employment and Economic Development, Steve Grove will be with you.
Tim walz vaccine mandate update#
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