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Tonight: Dr. Coetzee on the Omicron variant, iPhone snow notifications, and that flat Earth tweet about the ISS

What Dr. Angelique Coetzee Actually Said About Omicron Variant

On Nov. 28, Gateway Pundit, among other far-right news and opinion outlets, published a story about the omicron COVID-19 variant and Dr. Angelique Coetzee, the chair of the South African Medical Association. 

Jordan Liles reports.

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