Dr. Angelique Coetzee, the Chairperson of the South African Medical Association (SAMA). Screenshot from YouTube

Doctor who discovered Omicron: ‘I was ordered to label this variant serious’

Angelique Coetzee, general practitioner and president of the South African Medical Association, reacted in an interview with the Austrian ServusTV to the fear, panic and totalitarian rules imposed because of the Omicron variant, which she said was very mild.

Published: January 24, 2022, 9:59 am

    Pretoria

    Coetzee, who was the first to spot the variant, said that 99 percent of people who became infected with it had developed only minor symptoms. “It’s similar to a cold or the flu.”

    She also revealed that she was being threatened by “scientists”, among others, who had ordered her not to disclose that the new variant only caused mild complaints. They told her to adapt her story: “I then said that Omicron is a harmless disease in South Africa and a very serious disease in Europe because I had to tell European politicians that,” said Coetzee.

    Coetzee was approached by European “scientists” after she had explained that the panic surrounding Omicron was a “storm in a teacup”. Soon after her statement, the Dutch chairman of the OMT (the health agency dealing with the pandemic in the Netherlands) Jaap van Dissel dismissed her observations by saying that it was “really too early” to tell.

    “You don’t know yet what new variants are going to emerge after Omicron,” Van Dissel said.

    Even when Coetzee had tried to explain that she had simply been following the WHO guidelines for the definition of a mild disease, politicians continued to put pressure on her to change her statements.

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    2 comments

    1. Brave woman, im so glad she stood her ground and so sick and tired of the government being puppets to the elite to the detriment of their own people!!!

      Comment by PatriciaWB on January 26, 2022 at 8:26 am

    2. Dr. Robert Malone on posted irrefutable proof of the Ivermectin success story in India. Ivermectin needs to be allowed for medical use and for doctors to prescribe it immediately in United States. It is an act of criminal malfeasance to keep up the sham in the face of overwhelming proof and overwhelming harm to the people of this nation. If you want you can get it from https://ivmpharmacy.com

      Comment by RachelViolet1 on January 26, 2022 at 11:37 pm

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