Walz visits care center, acknowledges vaccine rollout was sluggish.
Gov. Tim Walz said the rollout of COVID-19 vaccine has been frustrating at times, but that Minnesota has made progress in immunizing the most vulnerable of the 3 million or so people in the state who need to receive shots.
The governor on Friday visited a New Hope nursing home — where in-person indoor visits are allowed again and workers and residents have received shots — to demonstrate that Minnesota is on a return to normalcy. The state on Friday reported that all nursing home residents in Minnesota have been offered vaccinations and 80% received at least first doses.
“This is a true vision of what the end of the tunnel looks like,” said Walz, standing in a lobby to the Good Samaritan Society-Ambassador facility that would have been off limits a few days ago. Continue reading.