Quote of the Week: Dr. Angelique Coetzee

“Most of them are seeing very, very mild symptoms and none of them so far have admitted patients to surgeries. We have been able to treat these patients conservatively at home.

Dr. Angelique Coetzee, a private practitioner and chair of South African Medical Association on 11/28.

(Coetzee, who is also on the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Vaccines, said unlike the Delta so far patients have not reported loss of smell or taste and there has been no major drop in oxygen levels with the new variant.)