MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The mayor of a southern Minnesota city is challenging state health department claims that a COVID-19 survey group was threatened there earlier this month.
State health authorities on Friday reported cases of health employees being subjected to hostility – including racial slurs – in numerous Minnesota communities, as the teams surveyed households to gather information on how the infection is spreading out. They were required to end the study early, officials stated.
The mayor of Eitzen, among the cities singled out, stated Saturday that he doesn’t believe the health department’s account of the episodes and added that city leaders were never called about survey groups working in the community, Minnesota Public Radio News reported.
” Personally, I think they owe the city of Eitzen and its residents an apology,” Mayor Jeff Adamson stated, describing the health department.
The health department stated one study group in Etizen was boxed in by 2 automobiles and threatened by three males, consisting of one with a weapon.
” The team felt the intent was plainly to frighten and scare them,” said Stephanie Yendell, who monitored Minnesota’s function in the study. “Unfortunately that wasn’t the only incident.”
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