MINNEAPOLIS — Mayo Clinic's COVID-19 model predicts Minnesota's record wave of coronavirus infections will peak Jan. 26 and could be followed by a rapid decline based on other states.
A quick peak to Minnesota's fifth pandemic wave would be welcome news in a state that on Tuesday reported another 10,651 coronavirus infections and 29 COVID-19 deaths. Tuesday's report, which updated pandemic activity in Minnesota through 4 a.m. Friday, included the deaths of three Minnesotans younger than 50 and raised the state's toll in the pandemic to exactly 11,000.
State health leaders cautioned that hospitalizations and deaths could continue to increase for a few weeks after any peak, because they are delayed consequences of infections.
