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

John Solomon Reports

John Solomon

News, Politics

4.76.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

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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Hello America, and welcome to a new edition of John Salomon Reports, a rare Saturday edition.

0:43.2

Normally I like to take Saturdays off and let you take Saturdays off as well, but we've got some

0:48.5

important breaking news. We were lucky enough to interview one of the most important doctors in the

0:54.1

recent Omicron outbreak of the coronavirus. It is the doctor who actually discovered the virus,

1:03.2

the Omicron virus. Her name is Dr. Angelique Goetzier. She is the head of the main medical group

1:11.2

in South Africa. In last November, she was the first to discover the Omicron variant, and she has

1:18.8

an extraordinary and most powerful tale to tell. Starting with how she discovered the Omicron,

1:25.6

what the early symptoms were and what they told her about this new variant, which by the way,

1:29.8

had like 50 different changes to the virus from the Delta one that we had been dealing with

1:34.7

last summer and fall. She then goes on to describe a pressure campaign. I'm going to talk to her

1:40.3

about that. You won't believe what they were pressuring her, what the medical establishment of the

1:45.0

world, Europe, United States, others, what they were pressuring her to say about Omicron that wasn't

1:51.2

true. She's going to walk us through that. And then she can talk about what the future of

1:56.8

coronavirus this pandemic is. What should we expect? She's very careful. She doesn't make predictions.

2:02.7

She tries to give us an overunder of what lies ahead and what doctors and experts will be looking for.

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