Dr. Stella Emmanuel. |
A Nigerian-born and trained physician, Dr. Stella Emmanuel, is trending on social media after delivering an impassioned COVID-19 speech in the US on Monday.
Speaking at a news conference in
Washington, Emmanuel claimed that antimalarial drug, hydroxychloroquine; zinc;
and antibacterial drug, Zithromax, were effective cures for the virus.
The Nigerian spoke during a news
conference held by a group of American doctors under the aegis of: “America’s
Frontline Doctors,” in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington DC.
The doctors are holding a two-day
“White Coat Summit” at the Capitol Hill to address what they call a “massive
disinformation campaign” surrounding the virus.
Emmanuel dismissed experts’ warning
that hydroxychloroquine could cause serious heart problems for coronavirus
patients, citing her experience with the use of the drug.
The Nigerian, who was joined by other
frontline doctors, said she had successfully treated no fewer than 350 patients
with hydroxychloroquine, zinc and Zithromax.
Emmanuel also said hydroxychloroquine,
long touted by President Donald Trump as cure for the virus, could also prevent
the disease.
She said: “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 mask.
“There is a cure.
“I know they don’t want to open
schools.
“No, you don’t need people to be
locked down.
“There is prevention and there is a
cure.”
Emmanuel, who said she had received
several threats to have her practice permit revoked, insisted she would
continue to administer the drugs on COVID-19 patients to save more American
lives.
A five-minute-long video capturing
Emmanuel’s passionate speech is currently going viral on various social media
platforms.
Dr. Simone Gold, a Los Angeles-based
emergency medicine specialist, who moderated the news conference, described
Emmanuel as a warrior.
“Before I introduce the next guest, I
just want to say that I wish all doctors that are listening to this bring that
kind of passion to their patients,” Gold said.
The following are excerpts of
Emmanuel’s speech:
“Hello, I’m Dr. Stella Emmanuel.
“I’m a primary care physician in
Houston, Texas.
“I actually went to medical school in
West Africa, Nigeria, where I took care of malaria patients, treated them with
hydroxychloroquine and stuffs like that.
“So I’m actually 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 somebody with
high blood pressure, not somebody who has 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.
“We see patients – 10 to 15 COVID-19
patients, everyday.
“We don’t give them breathing treatments.
“We only wear surgical mask.
“None of us has gotten sick.
“It works.
“So right now, I came here to
Washington DC to say, America, nobody needs to die.
“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 … that is the National … NIH,
what? National Institute of Health.
“They actually had a study and go look
it up.
“Type hiccups and COVID-19, you will
see it.
“They treated a patient that had
hiccups with hydroxychloroquine and it proved that hiccups is a symptom of
COVID-19.
“So, if the NIH knows that treating
the patient with hydroxychloroquine proves that hiccup is a symptom of
COVID-19, then they definitely know that hydroxychloroquine works.
“I’m upset.
“Why I’m upset is that I see people
that cannot breathe.
“I see parents walk in, I see diabetic
sit in my office knowing that this is a death sentence and they can’t breathe.
“And I hug them and I tell them: ‘It’s
going to be okay. You’re going to live.’
“And we treat them and they live.
“None has died.
“So if some fake science, some person
sponsored by all these fake pharma companies comes out says: ‘We’ve done
studies and they found out that it doesn’t work,’ I can tell you categorically
it’s fixed science.
“I want to know who is sponsoring that
study.
“I want to know who is behind it
because there is no way I can treat 350 patients and counting and nobody is
dead and they all did better.
“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 mask.
“There is a cure.
“I know they don’t want to open
schools.
“No, you don’t need people to be
locked down.
“There is prevention and there is a
cure.
“And let me tell you something, all
you fake doctors out there that tell me: ‘Yeah. I want a double-blinded study.’
“I just tell you, quit sounding like a
computer, double blinded.
“I don’t know whether your chips are
malfunctioning, but I’m a real doctor.
“I have radiologists, we have plastic
surgeons, we have neurosurgeons, like Sanjay Gupta saying: ‘Yeah, it doesn’t
work and it causes heart disease.’
“Let me ask you Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Hear
me.
“Have you ever seen a COVID-19
patient?
“Have you ever treated anybody with
hydroxychloroquine and they died from heart disease?
“When you do, come and talk to me
because I sit down in my clinic every day and I see these patients walk in
everyday scared to death.
“I see people driving two, three hours
to my clinic because some ER doctor is scared of the Texas board or they’re
scared of something, and they will not prescribe medication to these people.
“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
Boards.
“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 Boards, 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.
“There is a cure for COVID-19 and it
is called hydroxychloroquine.
“It’s called zinc.
“It’s called Zithromax.
“And it is time for the grassroots to
wake up and say: ‘No, we’re not going to take this any longer.
“We’re not going to die.’
“Because let me tell you something,
when somebody is dead, they are dead.
“They’re not coming back tomorrow to
have an argument.
“They are not coming back tomorrow to
discuss the double blinded study and the data.
“All of you doctors that are waiting
for data, if six months down the line you actually found out that this data
shows that this medication works, how about your patients that have died?
“You want a double blinded study where
people are dying?
“It’s unethical.
“So guys, we don’t need to die.
“There is a cure for COVID-19.”
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