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"A widely-shared quote from a South African doctor, saying Omicron causes only mild symptoms, is being taken out of context. She was referring to a small group

by eddyg 5y ago

"A widely-shared quote from a South African doctor, saying Omicron causes only mild symptoms, is being taken out of context. She was referring to a small group of young, healthy people and warned of severe disease in other groups" from https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1464734073897766919 https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1464734073897766919

tasogare 5y ago
"older people - with co-morbidities such as diabetes" which that exact same population that is at risk with the existing variants... It's the at-risk group which is actually small.
- sjg007 5y ago
  Look at the dead in Peru. Plenty of young healthy folks died.