A Cameroonian-born but Nigerian-trained physician, Dr Stella Immanuel has become a topic of discussion across social media platforms after delivering an impassioned COVID-19 speech in the U.S.
Speaking at a news conference in Washington, Dr Immanuel argued that controversial antimalarial drug, hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and antibacterial drug, Zithromax, were effective cures for the virus.
Hydroxychloroquine as an efficient treatment for COVID-19 patients has continually been dismissed by WHO and other health bodies due to safety concerns.
However, US President Donald Trump believes it is as a possible treatment for the novel coronavirus, and once admitted to taking the drug to help prevent infection.
Dr Immanuel also accused her colleagues and pharmaceutical companies of covering up the effectiveness of these drugs.
The doctor, who is also owner of Fire Power Deliverance Ministry, dismissed experts’ warning that hydroxychloroquine could cause serious heart problems for coronavirus patients, citing her experience with the use of the drug.
She shared her experience of managing over 350 coronavirus patients, with some having underlying illness like diabetes, asthma, high blood pressure and even aged patients.
The doctor declared that none of those patients died under her care after being treated with the drugs.
Read her full speech below;
Hello, I’m Dr Stella Emmanuel. I’m a primary care physician in Houston, Texas. I went to medical school in West Africa, Nigeria, where I took care of malaria patients, treated them with hydroxychloroquine and stuff like that. So I’m used to these medications.
I’m here because I have personally treated over 350 patients with COVID-19. Patients that have diabetes, patients that have high blood pressure, patients that have asthma, old people. I think my oldest patients are 92, 87-year-olds. And the result has been the same. I put them on hydroxychloroquine, I put them on zinc, I put them on Zithromax, and they’re all well.
For the past few months, after taking care of over 350 patients, we’ve not lost one. Not a diabetic, not a somebody with high blood pressure, not somebody who asthma, not an old person.
We’ve not lost one patient. And on top of that, I’ve put myself, my staff, and many doctors that I know on hydroxychloroquine for prevention because by the very mechanism of action, it works early and as a prophylaxis.
The study that made me start using hydroxychloroquine was a study that they did under the NIH in 2005 that says it works.
Recently, I was doing some research about a patient that had hiccups and I found out that they even did a recent study in the NIH, which is our National Institute of Health.
I know you’re going to tell me that you treated 20 people, 40 people, and it didn’t work. I’m a true testimony. So I came here to Washington DC to tell America nobody needs to get sick.
This virus has a cure. It is called hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and Zithromax. I know you people want to talk about a mask. Hello? You don’t need a mask. There is a cure.
I tell all of you doctors that are sitting down and watching Americans die. You’re like the good Nazi, the good one, the good Germans that watched Jews get killed and you did not speak up.
If they come after me, they threaten me. They’ve threatened to….I mean, I’ve gotten all kinds of threats. Or they’re going to report me to the bots.
I say, you know what? I don’t care. I’m not going to let Americans die. And if this is the hill where I get nailed on, I will get nailed on it. I don’t care. You can report me to the bots, you can kill me, you can do whatever, but I’m not going to let Americans die.
And today I’m here to say it, that America, there is a cure for COVID-19. All this foolishness does not need to happen. There is a cure for COVID-19.
Watch the video below as posted by Dr. Benny Johnson:
Dr. Stella Immanuel talks about her experience treating COVID-19 patients with Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, and Zithromax.
“You want a double blinded study where people are dying? It’s unethical.” pic.twitter.com/TYQjn7EKMH
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) July 27, 2020
Benny Arthur Johnson is an American political columnist, currently serving as chief creative officer at conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA. He is a Trump campaigner.
Johnson first rose to prominence as an editor at BuzzFeed, until it was revealed that many of his published articles were plagiarized and he was fired.
Immanuel’s video testimony has been blocked by YouTube. It is still on Twitter and has been shared widely on Facebook.
Reports said it was blocked because it does not represent the truth. Dr Immanuel is also reported to be just a primary health care doctor, who probably comes across patients with mild symptoms.
Her position is therefore deemed not to be scientific, but political, as she is working for a Trump campaign group Breitblat.
