I haven't seen that but I can't say I intake a lot of media either. But most the shyt I've seen here on the west coast is about how bad the shyt is and how everyone needs to spend the holiday season locked down. They don't really talk about "the future" like that on the news.
Here is an example from a different source ..
"The CEO of BioNTech said he has "scientific confidence" that the current Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine could work against the new variant, but full data will be available in two weeks.
Ugur Sahin said the new variant may however require countries to vaccinate more of the population, raising the bar for achieving herd immunity.
"[On] the topic of herd immunity there is always the discussion about 60-70%," Sahin told a news conference Tuesday. "But if the virus becomes more efficient in infecting people,
we might need even a high vaccination rate to ensure that normal life can continue without interruption.""
he added possible outbreaks afterwards POSSIBLY.
UK coronavirus variant: What we know and what we don't - CNN
more details ts 1h1m20s
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two weeks to know if vaccine works with UK strain - expects it to work