Dr. Michael Osterholm, Director of the University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS a vaccine for COVID-19 is “many months away.”
“I cannot tell you exactly when a vaccine will be approved and considered safe,” said Osterholm. “No one knows when that will happen, but hopefully sooner rather than later and likely to happen sometime in 2021.”
Osterholm said there are many questions that need to be answered about the vaccine when it does arrive and sorting out how it will be distributed is one of those questions.