Stella Immanuel

Demons, Hydroxychloroquine, and Conspiracy: The Warnings of Dr. Stella Immanuel

on August 3, 2020

A skeptic of Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidance on the handling of Coronavirus and treatment for COVID-19 has recently had her own unconventional treatments and unorthodox religious beliefs brought to light.

In a video that went viral earlier this week, Dr. Stella Immanuel claimed that anti-Malaria drug Hydroxychloroquine is the cure to the Coronavirus.

Her claim that the drug is a miracle cure to the global pandemic was not supported by Dr. Anthony Fauci, long-time Director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In a recent BET interview, Fauci expressed that “Multiple trials that were well conducted have shown that Hydroxycholoquine is not effective in Coronavirus disease”.

“You don’t need a mask, there is a cure,” Immanuel proclaimed in a June 27 speech from the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court at the “White Coat Summit”, a gathering of doctors who claim that false information is being spread in regards to treatments of the Coronavirus. The group, “America’s Frontline Doctors”, maintains that masks are unnecessary in the prevention of COVID-19 and that quarantine does not need to occur.

A self-proclaimed conspiracy theorist, Immanuel has suggested that vaccines are government plots to control people. In a 2015 sermon, she claimed that scientists have plans to insert microchips into people that could result in the eradication of religion.

“They found the gene in somebody’s mind that makes you religious, so they can vaccinate against it,” Immanuel claimed, one of several statements that caused critics to question her medical expertise.

Immanuel is not new to the medicine. A 1990 graduate of the Nigerian Medical School at the University of Calabar, she moved to the U.S. in 1992. Soon after immigrating, Immanuel completed a pediatric residency at the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center in New York City. Across the following several decades, Immanuel joined the General Pediatric Care Clinic as a pediatrician and owned medical care facilities in Louisiana and Texas.

Immanuel claims that under her guidance, her Houston-based practice has cured more than 350 patients suffering COVID-19 by administering a combination of the drugs Hydroxychloroquine and Zithromax, as well as the mineral zinc. The video was published to Breitbart News and YouTube, and was retweeted by both the President and his eldest son Donald Trump, Jr., the latter declaring it a “must watch”. Twitter and Facebook quickly removed the video from their social media platforms, arguing that it violated their COVID-19 disinformation policies.

It was at this point that Immanuel brought her religious views and beliefs into play. In reaction to the removal of her video from Facebook, Immanuel lashed out with a set of viral tweets demanding that the video posts be restored. Threatening the social media giant, she Tweeted “Hello Facebook put back my profile page and videos up or your computers with start crashing till you do”.

This message was followed up by “You are not bigger that God. I promise you. If my page is not back up face book will be down in Jesus name.”

Immanuel’s religious convictions extend beyond invoking the power of God against the removal of her video content.

In sermons posted by Fire Power Ministries, a church she founded in Katy, Texas, Immanuel asserts that many diseases result from witches and demons. In a 2013 sermon, Immanuel claimed that demonic creatures “Are responsible for serious gynecological problems, we call them all kinds of names—endometriosis, we call them molar pregnancies, we call them fibroids, we call them cysts, but most of them are evil deposits from the spirit husband.”

Immanuel stated that “They (Demons) are responsible for miscarriages, impotence—men that can’t get it up.” Quotes such as these have caused medical professionals and the general public alike to call into question the validity of Immanuel’s medical license. Immanuel’s past medical practices have been called into question, especially with the emergence of malpractice lawsuits that were created due to the death of a previous patient.

Fire Power Ministries is a nondenominational charismatic ministry. Review of sermons and church service videos reveal no clear organizational ties. Immanuel does not list seminary instruction in her resume. A definite wild card, only time will tell what will be the outcome of her claims regarding COVID-19.

  1. Comment by Lee Cary on August 3, 2020 at 1:37 pm

    “Twitter and Facebook quickly removed the video from their social media platforms, arguing that it violated their COVID-19 disinformation policies.”

    If that’s their policy – to remove COVID-19 disinformation – t hey need to go back and review all of the NIH and CDC announcements beginning early in the year and remove a ton of misinformation.

  2. Comment by David on August 4, 2020 at 8:27 am

    Covid-19 is a new disease and not some variant of common influenza. New things are still being learned about it such as long term conditions that some victims suffer. Science is based on information and as new things are discovered, some older ideas may need to be modified or abandoned. Science is self-correcting unlike some other things. Very few physicians are scientists as they do not engage in research.

    The article brings up a point of particular concern to Methodists at this time. Witchcraft is widely imagined to be real in parts of Africa, even by otherwise educated people. The burning or killing of witches is fairly common. There are basic cultural differences between the US and Africa at times.

  3. Comment by Mary L Longworth on August 7, 2020 at 10:15 pm

    When doctors across America join together at an event called American Frontiers Doctors in Washington DC, they risk their career, and reputation to speak to American citizens. They want you to know they have had success treating Covid-19; we should listen.

  4. Comment by Timothy on August 22, 2020 at 7:47 pm

    It appears many people scoff or ridicule the belief/fact that witches and demons can cause disease. Is this Biblical? Furthermore Dr. Fauci and his comrads in the drug and health care industry and his funded servants inside many Fauci funded university research labs pocketed billions of dollars for his friends who ‘fall in line’ and ‘don’t make waves’. Wall Street investors love Fauci, and the health care establishment fears him.

  5. Comment by Kathy A Byers on September 17, 2020 at 4:09 pm

    Honestly it does not matter what religion or beliefs she has as she has treated covid successfully. President Trump was right all along It does work. However overdosing people on this drug does not. The study coming out of Belgium has now confirmed it does work. Shame on the liberal media for actually contributing to the deaths that could have been prevented . Shame on George Soros for supporting this false narrative and all the other evil he does. It is terrible . Karma sometimes comes disguised and he will eventually take care of himself. So sad that people cannot wake up and see the truth and it is not coming from mainstream media.

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