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Texas-based televangelist Kenneth Copeland of Kenneth Copeland Ministries recommended folks to not panic over the brand new coronavirus, calling it a “very susceptible pressure of flu” that wholesome folks shouldn’t worry.
“It (coronavirus) is so susceptible their signs are nearly alike,” Copeland mentioned Wednesday in a Fb Are living broadcast of his Victory Information record. “Some folks had it and didn’t even are aware of it. They only haven’t discovered the right way to knock that factor within the head but.”
Copeland’s broadcast started with a spotlight of a special pressure of the coronavirus indexed at the label of a bottle of Clorox to exhibit that different lines of the virus had been round for some time.
He additionally pointed to a contemporary announcement  from scientists at Israel’s The Galilee Analysis Institute that they’re at the cusp of growing a vaccine for the brand new coronavirus in the following few weeks.
“Our fundamental thought was once to broaden the generation and no longer particularly a vaccine for this type or that more or less virus,” Dr. Chen Katz, MIGAL’s biotechnology workforce chief advised the Jerusalem Publish Wednesday. “The medical framework for the vaccine is in line with a brand new protein expression vector, which bureaucracy and secretes a chimeric soluble protein that delivers the viral antigen into mucosal tissues through self-activated endocytosis, inflicting the frame to shape antibodies towards the virus.”
He added: “We’re in the midst of this procedure, and expectantly in a couple of weeks we will be able to have the vaccine in our fingers. Sure, in a couple of weeks, if all of it works, we might have a vaccine to stop coronavirus.”
Copeland then mentioned that a lot of the response to the brand new coronavirus has been fear-based and pointed to two Timothy 1:7 to turn why God would like for Christians to have religion that they are going to triumph over the virus even supposing they’re inflamed.
“For God hath no longer given us the spirit of worry; however of energy, and of affection, and of a valid thoughts,” he mentioned. “So worry is a spirit and that spirit is the satan and he’s the spirit of loss of life.”
Copeland then defined that having worry is to actively put religion within the energy of the satan.
“So worry is religion in him (satan). It’s a religious drive. Religion comes through listening to and listening to through the phrase of God. Concern comes through listening to and a listening to through the phrase of the satan. The lies of Devil. All fear is fear-based. All nervousness is fear-based. All melancholy is fear-based. Amen. So worry of this virus, put out of your mind about corona. It’s any other type of the flu,” he mentioned.
Copeland, who was once born in 1936 and celebrated his 83rd birthday closing December, mentioned he has been round a very long time and has observed a number of other lines of the flu, together with the Hong Kong flu pandemic which came about in 1968. Copeland recalled a plague he skilled round 1957 and 1958 which was once all over the time of the Asian Flu virus.
The Asian Flu virus was once first reported in Singapore in February 1957, Hong Kong in April 1957, and in coastal towns in the US in summer season 1957. The estimated choice of deaths was once 1.1 million international and 116,000 in the US, the CDC mentioned.
By contrast, officers on the CDC and epidemic mavens from universities all over the world estimate that if the brand new coronavirus beneficial properties a foothold within the U.S., between 160 million and 214 million folks within the U.S. may well be inflamed, The New York Instances reported. As many as 200,000 to at least one.7 million folks may die.
As of Friday afternoon, a minimum of 1,714 folks in 47 states and Washington, D.C., have examined certain for coronavirus, in line with a New York Instances database, and a minimum of 41 sufferers with the virus have died.
“When I used to be within the Military 1957, 1958, the primary a type of issues hit. It was once referred to as the Hong Kong Flu. No one ever heard of it ahead of. And guy, I’m telling you. I used to be stationed in Castle Gordon, Georgia. And it hit with a vengeance,” Copeland recalled.
He defined that he was once stationed on the Military health center and when the flu hit that they had about 35 sufferers. By means of the following morning, he mentioned, there have been greater than 500. He mentioned they labored to wash the health center and attempted to do the entirety to stay it from spreading, however folks died anyway.
Since then, the flu virus has persevered to mutate, he mentioned, including that wholesome folks shouldn’t fear.
“The article is, wholesome folks aren’t death from this. It’s aged folks which might be already ill,” he mentioned, noting that “what we want to do is care for worry.”
When it was once famous that there are pastors who have been involved that folks received’t come to church on account of the brand new coronavirus and others who’re advising congregants to not attend, Copeland argued that he needs folks to wait his church.
“I need you in my church. If we need to cross out thermometers. If we discover one with a fever, let’s get him healed proper there,” he mentioned. “What for those who do get it? Large deal!”
He additional famous that he not too long ago battled a bout of the flu and he praised his means out of his illness in quarter-hour whilst he was once at a ministers’ convention.
He additional praised Vice President Mike Pence and his coronavirus job drive for praying about how to reply to the pandemic.
“That’s why we want this president in there for any other 4 years. That’s the explanation why, and as a result of that guy proper there. As a result of for those who give Donald Trump 4 extra years he’ll be president in 8 years. Mike Pence, he’s the non secular chief in this workforce,” Copeland mentioned.

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