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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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .