Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, said Sunday on "Meet the Press.""In fact, right here in Minnesota, we're now seeing the other aspect of this B.1.1.7 variant that hasn't been talked much about, and that is the fact that it infects kids very readily," he added.To date, there have been more than 15,500 total cases of B.1.1.7 reported since it was first detected in the U.S.
in December, data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.Osterholm said in Minnesota there have been 749 schools with reported cases of the more contagious variant over the last two weeks.