Covid-2019 - 2022-02-09

Remember back in November when we were the first to tell you that Omicron was a far milder version of Covid? We got that information from South Africa's Angelique Coetzee, whose clinical work discovered the variant in the first place. Now, in an interview with the German paper Der Welt, she reveals she was pressured not to tell the world about the good news. Meanwhile, many parts of the world are finally getting the memo, with Britain and Sweden set to end all restrictions. But then there's this headline in the New York Times: "The Biden administration remains cautious about easing masking and other Covid safety measures." It's all in Recommended Reading.