Epidemiologist Michael Osterholm Compares Reopening Schools As U.K. Variant Invades The U.S. Is Like 'Planting Petunias In A Hurricane'
The director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy on what was different about this coronavirus
"When [President Donald Trump] held up that summary from Johns Hopkins saying we’re the best-prepared country in the world for a pandemic, I cringed because I knew how ill-prepared we were, and yet that’s what people thought; that we would be prepared...
I think another influenza pandemic is going to happen. When it takes place, I don’t know, but it’s going to happen. And now we have to consider maybe additional new coronaviruses are going to emerge. This one really took us by surprise as a pandemic agent."