State public health leaders once worried the end of the statewide masking mandate last month might deliver an uptick in COVID-19 cases, but so far it hasn’t happened.
The state has averaged fewer than 124 new cases a day over the past seven reporting days.
Case counts had crept up across the state during April following a massive spike in late November and early December.
Add in the more than 99,000 12-to-15-year-olds with at least one dose, and Minnesota has topped 3 million residents with one or more shots.
The vaccination pace, however, is stumbling forward at this point.
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