South African doctor who discovered Omicron: Officials pressured her to not call it mild because 'they were scared'
Feb 19, 2022
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Dr. Angelique Coetzee, the South African doctor who discovered the Omicron variant, said that officials pressured her to not call the COVID-19 variant "mild" because "they were scared" and were only looking at its mutations, rather than the symptoms.