Time To Panic

Dr. Angelique Coetzee, a South African physician with a family practice, last week notified the South African vaccine advisory board of a potential new strain of COVID which she had observed in several patients. In less than 48 hours, governments around the world had instituted travel bans from Southern Africa and the world’s major stock markets had sold off 3%. The variant was given the name Omicron. Dr. Coetzee, pictured below was interviewed about her findings and made the following terrifying observations:

Dr Coetzee reassured the media that the new symptoms she had observed were 'mild', and that all of the patients she was treating had recovered well. 

'We had one very interesting case, a kid, about six years old, with a temperature and a very high pulse rate, and I wondered if I should admit her,' Dr Coetzee said,

'When I followed up two days later, she was so much better.'

Questioned further, Dr. Coetzee described a 33 year old male patient who complained of being “extremely tired” with body aches and a scratchy throat, but recovered shortly after his visit to her clinic. None of the patients she has treated have loss their sense of taste or smell and none have experienced a bad cough. Further pressed to describe the symptoms she added the modifier “extremely” to her initial description of “mild”. As of this writing there have been no hospitalizations or deaths from Omicron. Officials are concerned that it might spread faster than earlier strains of COVID, and so far it is unknown whether or if existing vaccines will be effective.

That’s it.

That’s all we know.