Dr. Angelique Coetzee, head of the South African Medical Association, said that during discussions with European officials, she was told not to say that Omicron patients presented milder symptoms than prior COVID-19 variants.
She reports: I was asked to refrain from making such statements and to say that it is a serious illness. I declined.”
Good for her!
She went on: “I am a clinician and based on the clinical picture there are no indications that we are dealing with a very serious disease.”
She was asked to lie! But they were dealing with a real doctor, a real scientist, and she refused.
John Hinderaker, who wrote the report, comments: “I think there has been a concerted effort from the beginning to exaggerate the threat from covid.”
I think so too.