South African doctor who discovered Omicron: Officials pressured her to not call it mild because 'they were scared'
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.
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