Minnesota Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm calls the state’s current COVID-19 surge “disheartening and alarming,” and she’s bracing Minnesotans for more bad days ahead.

“It feels like we’re losing ground,” she told reporters Wednesday as she compared the rampant spread cutting through Minnesota and its neighbor states to a wildfire. “We’re falling behind the rapid spread of this virus.”

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