How professional could a doctor be to declare highly-respected doctors and scientists fake? Between our sista and Dr. Fauci, who do I believe on the information about COVID-19? The choice is clear. Dr. Fauci talks science, the other talks politics. We need science to save us from this mortal enemy, not superstitions, obfuscations, anecdotes, misinformation, and drama.
Into this toxic mix of politics, science, and religion stepped Dr. Stella Immanuel, a Houston-based pediatrician who had her degree in medicine from the University of Calabar and did her residency at a Bronx hospital in New York. In a press conference organised by the right wing, she, along with other doctors, and some Republican politicians, gathered on the steps of the United States Supreme Court.
Why do I call her our sista, even though she is Cameroonian? Because she is. Here, all African immigrants are undifferentiated. We are all the same to our new country, regardless of our countries of origin, language, or cultural differences. And these superstitions she is spouting are not new to any of us, although her scientific twist is novel.
I was not prepared for an exchange I had a few days ago on one of my Nigerian groups’ social media platform. Someone there had posted the now-famous video of Dr. Immanuel to our platform, with his own comment that there is a cure for COVID-19, citing Dr. Immanuel’s claim as evidence. When I replied that this was no evidence and that WHO and FDA had warned us against this medication, my interlocutor got very angry, defended Dr.
It is therefore deeply embarrassing that the one African immigrant medical voice America heard on this matter is coming from a place of politics and superstition. Some Americans are now calling her “witch doctor”, “voodoo doctor” and questioning the validity of her medical education in Nigeria.
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