Dr. Deborah Birx in Rochester

Us for kimt news 3 saturday at six.

I'm annalise johnson.

First tonight ?

"* as part of hr university tours ?

"* dr. deborh birx ?

"* coronavirus response coordinator for the white house ?

"* stopped in rochester.

She was at rochester community and technical college to discuss a rise in covid?

"*19 cases.

Kimt news 3's jeremy wall has that story.

Cases are rising here in minnesota and we are from being done with this pandemic.

While making a stop at rochester community and technical college ?

"* dr. deborah birx ?

"* the coronavirs response coordinator for the white house ?

"* went into detal about minnesota being nineteenth in the country for cases.

It's rising at a rate that we hadn't seen through the summer in the colder states ?

"* the outbreak is intensifying.

With numbers rising ?

"* and people trying to do normal things like have others over their houses ?

"* birx says wearing a mask might be the new normal even when not in public.

We all have to play that part and that part includes us wearing masks.

Masks with eachother, masks when were in public, and potentially masks in our household if were choosing to visit with vulnerable indviduals but it's not just wearing it.

Birx stressed the importance of in places like restaurants and seeing how far apart tables are and whose wearing a mask.

In here in olmsted county... cases do continue to rise, but according to county public health ?

"* it's nothing out of control.

Across the state... there have been mobile testing units that offer free testing where outbreaks are occurring.

In rochester... health officials haven't felt the need to bring one here.

Olmsted county public health director, graham briggs says the county is staying fairly steady for the "that's not to say that wouldn't happen here, but it is kind of a positive thing i think almost that we're not on that list for a reason because we've got testing ran and we don't have some big community wide or college based outbreak or something like that that's out of control."

He says the next steps are to start offering routine testing to teachers and those