Texas doctor who became famous for promoting the use of hydroxychloroquine in 2020 [HQC], An anti-malaria drug, as a “cure” for COVID-19, has filed a defamation lawsuit CNN And CNN anchor, Anderson Cooper The amount is 100 million U.S. dollars.
Dr. Stella Immanuel submitted a Federal litigation Claimed on Tuesday, “In order to discredit, demonize, and embarrass the president [Donald] Trump, Cooper and CNN published a series of factual statements about Dr. Emanuel, which damaged her reputation and caused her to suffer from public hatred, contempt, ridicule, and economic loss. “
In the lawsuit, Emanuel said that Cooper and CNN “effectively caused hundreds of thousands of deaths. If they received HCQ treatment as early as possible, their lives would have been spared.”
In July 2020, the then President trump card A video of Emmanuel speaking on the steps was posted on Twitter Supreme Court In the building, she claimed that “you don’t need a mask, there is a cure… you don’t need to lock people up.”
In the same filming incident recorded by Emanuel wearing a suit, she said: “All of your fake doctors told me,’Yes. I want a double-blind study.’ I’m just telling you, don’t sound like Computer, double-blind, double-blind. I don’t know if your chip is malfunctioning, but I’m a real doctor…We have neurosurgeons, like Sanjay Gupta said, “Yes , It doesn’t work, it can cause heart disease. Let me ask you Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Listen to me. Have you seen COVID patients?”
Double blind study It is widely regarded by the medical community as the gold standard to prove the effect of treatment. This is one of the only ways to remove prejudice between doctors and patients from the testing process, because neither knows whether the patient is receiving the real treatment or a placebo.
After the video began to attract attention on social media, Anderson Cooper and CNN began to issue statements refuting Emanuel’s claims. A CNN video stated that Dr. Emanuel was “spreading conspiracy theories about COVID-19” and promoted an “unproven drug, hydroxychloroquine”.
Cooper went on to say: “Trump promoted a doctor who believed that women can be pregnant by a witch in a dream”, and “among other things, he claimed that having sex with the’tortured soul’ is a gynecological problem, miscarriage and Impotence.” He pointed to the YouTube video where Emanuel made these claims.
The platform spokesperson Andy Stone (Andy Stone) said that Facebook eventually deleted the video because it “shared false information about the cure and treatment of COVID-19.”
Emanuel continued to claim that HQC was “fully effective” in the litigation, and in addition to court fees and interest, it also demanded US$100 million in “compensatory and punitive damages”.
Although the Federal Food and Drug Administration has granted HQC an emergency use authorization for COVID-19 treatment within a short period of time, the approval is Revoke In June 2020, the drug was considered “unlikely to be effective” and was a potential cause of “serious adverse cardiac events and other potentially serious side effects.”
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