Stella Immanuel, a physician at the center of a controversy over unproven and harmful claims that an antimalarial drug can treat Covid-19, is no stranger to conspiracy theories.
Facebook and Twitter have removed the viral video in which it appears, claiming it violates their misinformation policies, but before being retwed by Donald Trump and one of his children.
The president of the United States defended himself, saying that he discovered that Dr. Immanuel, who was born in Cameroon and discovered in the city of Houston in Texas, “is very impressive.”
“He said he had had a great fortune with many other patients, I think his voice is a vital voice but I don’t know anything about her,” he said Tuesday.
Dr. Immanuel, who is also a Christian pastor, gave a speech about the movements of the United States Supreme Court in Washington, captured in a video first published via the right Breitbart on Monday.
Along with other doctors at an organization called Frontline Doctors in the United States, he said Americans were denied a cure for Covid-19.
“No one wants to get sick. This virus has a cure: it’s called hydroxychloroquine, I’ve treated more than 350 patients and I’ve had a single death,” Dr. Immanuel said.
Despite some initial studies that increase hopes that the drug can only be used to cure coronavirus, an upcoming larger trial showed that it is not effective as a treatment.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has discontinued its trials, saying it has no mortality rates in coronavirus patients.
Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cautioned that it was opposed to the drug to treat coronavirus patients, following reports of “serious central rhythm problems” and other fitness problems.
And Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House Working Group on Coronavirus, reiterated those views.
“We know that each and every smart exam, and by smart examination, I mean a randomized control exam in which knowledge is compact and credible, have shown that hydroxychloroquine is not effective in Covid-19’s remedy,” he told the BBC on Wednesday.
But Dr. Immanuel insisted that hydroxychloroquine intake is destructive because it feeds widely in his home country of Cameroon, where malaria is endemic.
Born in 1965, Dr Immanuel graduated with a medical degree from the University of Calabar in neighbouring Nigeria – and has a valid doctor’s licence, according to the website of the Texas Medical Board.
She is also a pastor and founder of Fire Power Ministries in Houston, a platform she has used to announce conspiracies about the medical profession.
His sermons are held in a YouTube account created in 2009.
Five years ago, he claimed that extraterrestrial DNA was used in medical remedies and that scientists were preparing a vaccine to save others from being religious.
Some of his other claims come with the guilt of medical situations to witches and demons, a rather unusual confidence among some evangelical Christians, he says they have sex with other people in a world of dreams.
“They become a woguy and then sleep with the boy and pick up his sperm … then they become a boy and sleep with a guy and deposit the sperm and reproduce more,” a sermon said in 2013.
Another goal of Dr. Immanuel is same-sex marriage, claiming that it can lead to adult marriage with children, according to Daily Beast.
He also proposes a prayer to remove a generational curse, gained from an ancestor, but transmitted through the placenta, according to the profile of the news site.
In his video posted on Twitter on Tuesday, he asks patients that he says he has recovered from Covid-19 to show up.
“If you don’t talk, we’re going to go into the trash,” she says, encouraging them to use a hashtag when posting their video messages.
His tweet had more than 27,000 retweets.
After Facebook got rid of the video of top-of-the-line U.S. doctors on Tuesday, he said Jesus Christ would destroy the social media giant’s servers if his videos were not restored to the platform.
Facebook has reported any interruptions to its services.
It is a set of critical physicians with clinical consensus around the Covid-19 pandemic. Monday’s occasion was supported by Tea Party Patriots, a conservative organization that seeks to re-elect President Trump.
Doctors who do not mask or close are required to control the spread of coronavirus.
The group’s founder, Simone Gold, sent a letter to Mr. Trump calling for an end to the blockade measures in May.
Participants were encouraged to seek interviews with influential people on social media, as this was our decision to be the most productive way to succeed in Americans.
Ralph Norman, a Republican member of the House of Representatives, joined the press conference.
The debate is increasingly dividing Americans along political lines, with hydroxychloroquines targeting President Trump and accusing critics of hiding their forward-looking effectiveness.
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IMPACT: What the virus does in the body
RECOVERY: How do you need it?
LOCK: How can we restrictions?
ENDGAME: How can we get out of this mess?