COVID-19 ICU admissions continue to rise in Minnesota

• Intensive care admissions of people with severe COVID-19 reached 202 in Minnesota on Thursday, exceeding 200 for the first time since late December on the downside of the last pandemic wave. The latest COVID-19 data for Minnesota underscored the severity of the pandemic, despite vaccine progress — with the state on Friday reporting another 10 deaths and 2,167 infections with the novel coronavirus that causes the respiratory disease. But the data also offered some hopeful signs that the current wave is peaking.