Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.Michael Osterholm, former advisor to President Joe Biden, said Sunday the coronavirus variant found in the UK could become the dominant strain in the US."If we see that happen … we are going to see something that we have not seen yet in this country," he said.
"The surge that is likely to occur with this new variant from England is gonna happen in the next six to 14 weeks," Osterholm said on on Sunday."If we see that happen … we are going to see something that we have not seen yet in this country.", including from Pfizer and BioNTech, suggest existing vaccines should still work against it, although the companies have only studied the variant in laboratory conditions.