Doctor Who Helped Discover Omicron Says She Was Pressured Not to Reveal It's Mild

The narrative should not be more important than the science

Thank you my friend MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. for making us aware that Dr. Angelique Coetzee

Just the News Editor-in-Chief John Solomon sits down with renown medical expert Dr. Angelique Coetzee for an exclusive interview about COVID-19.
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said that during discussions with European officials, she was told not to say that Omicron patients presented milder symptoms than prior COVID-19 variants.
“I was told not to publicly state that it was a mild illness. I have been asked to refrain from making such statements and to say that it is a serious illness. I declined,” she told Welt in response to a question about her initial discussions about Omicron with European officials.
Coetzee did not elaborate on which officials allegedly told her to keep quiet. In the interview, Coetzee said that South African officials did not try to pressure her, claiming that later, she was criticized by authorities in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
She continued: “I am a clinician and based on the clinical picture there are no indications that we are dealing with a very serious disease. The course is mostly mild. I’m not saying you won’t get sick if you’re mild,” according to a German-to-English translation.
“The definition of mild COVID-19 disease is clear, and it is a [World Health Organization] definition: patients can be treated at home and oxygen or hospitalization is not required,” Coetzee said, adding: “A serious illness is one in which we see acute pulmonary respiratory infections: people need oxygen, maybe even artificial respiration. We saw that with Delta—but not with Omicron. So I said to people, ‘I can’t say it like that because it’s not what we’re seeing.'”
During her discussions, she recalled what she had told the other officials. “What I said at one point—because I was just tired of it—was: In South Africa, this is a mild illness, but in Europe, it is a very serious one. That’s what your politicians wanted to hear.”
In late November, Coetzee said in several interviews, including one with CNN, that the “majority of what we are presenting to primary health care practitioners are extremely mild cases, so mild to moderate … and so, these patients, it means they don’t need to be hospitalized for now.”
“We try to get the message out there to the world to say listen,” she added, “we’re not saying this is not going to be a disease going forward that’s going to cause severe disease; it will cause severe disease, but if this disease can cause to more than the majority of people mild symptoms, easily treatable at home, no need for admission, that’s a first prize.”
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