Nicole Ki
Meet Nicole Ki Nicole Ki is a reporter with Reverb, a MPR News initiative and reporting team focused on serving younger (and young-at-heart) Minnesotans. Her work includes in-depth reporting and producing TikTok videos on a wide range of Minnesotan topics. Before joining MPR News, Nicole was a human rights reporter for the Argus Leader in […]
Melissa Olson
Meet Melissa Olson Melissa Olson is a reporter for the MPR News Native News Initiative and a contributor to the North Star Journey series. She is also an essayist and community archivist. Her long-form audio documentary “Stolen Childhoods” was produced in collaboration with KFAI community radio and aired statewide on Minnesota Public Radio in […]
Cognitive Dysfunction, Viral Persistence Studied First in New Long COVID Trials
The first two of the long-awaited long COVID clinical trials from the RECOVER initiative are underway, the NIH said. RECOVER-NEURO, which will study interventions for long COVID cognitive dysfunction, and RECOVER-VITAL, a study targeting viral persistence, are opening enrollment, said Acting NIH Director Lawrence Tabak, DDS, PhD, in a press briefing today. Two other trials, […]
Opinion | The Healthcare System Didn’t Plan Poorly for Disaster
I was, for a while, a lecturer/consultant for the “Domestic Preparedness Program.” This was an initiative by the Department of Justice to ensure that first responders around the U.S. were prepared to deal with the medical consequences of nuclear, biological, chemical, and blast injuries. This was before the terrible events of 9/11. Our job as […]