NEW ULM — Brown County Public Health Director Jaimee Brand told Brown County commissioners Tuesday that there is quite a bit of winter flu activity across the state. She admitted there is not as much public health data available now from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) as there was during the COVID-19 epidemic. “Some of our disease prevention and control data is not as robust as we had in the past because there have been a lot of state level transitions. They have had to cut quite a few disease prevention and control staff due to federal government funding cuts,” Brand ...