Premium: World watches SA scientists on Omicron – appears more contagious, less deadly

Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the statue. The recording of an interview I had this week with Discovery's Adrian Gore presenting the case FOR mandatory vaccines (click here or above) has been viewed half as many times as one with Sakeliga's Piet le Roux and Russell Lamberti AGAINST the idea.

Equally passionate has been outrage from my countrymen as the Western World moved at warp speed to isolate the country after SA scientists uncovered the new Omicron variant of Covid-19. This self-righteous anger, however, might have been premature.

Although the variant may well have initially been imported into SA, there is now little question the country has become Omicron's global hotspot. That dubious honour enables local scientists to take advantage of abundant data. Unfortunately, this is a double edged sword.

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