The coronavirus pandemic, which has been in our lives since 2019, has come to a completely different dimension due to the variant named omicron. So much so that the number of cases is constantly breaking new records, but when we compare these numbers with the previous years, we witness that the disease has become almost ordinary. Although it is unknown whether the Omicron variant will end the disease as it is said, some statements on the subject are of the type that may raise a question mark in your mind against the disease.
The name who made statements about the variant believed to end the pandemic was Angelique Coetzee, a South African doctor. Coetzee is also important because he was the first to discover the variant. Speaking to the British newspaper Daily Telegraph, Coetzee made an important confession about the variant he discovered. “There has been pressure from politicians and scientists around the world to say that the disease seems much worse than it is. I was asked not to describe the Omicron variant as mild,” the doctor said.
“It is not possible to have a mild disease with 38 mutations”
Angelique Coetzee says that the disease is still dangerous for unvaccinated individuals. Stating that he also found that the variant is mildly effective, the scientist says that he cannot convince him because some people think that a disease with 38 mutations is not likely to be mild. In fact, Coetzee was accused of underestimating the disease and lying because he said the variant was mildly effective.
Dr. In the statements made by Angelique Coetzee, the following statements were included: “Scientists and politicians who are not in South Africa contacted me and said that this disease is a very serious disease, and they criticized and attacked me for saying that the disease was mild. In South Africa it is a mild illness, but politicians have asked me to say it is a very serious illness. European politicians and scientists said, ‘Please tell me this is not a mild disease’.”
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