Trump adviser claims ‘word of God’ will protect us from flu

An evangelical adviser for President Trump said flu shots are unnecessary because you can “inoculate yourself with the word of God.”

Gloria Copeland, who started Kenneth Copeland Ministries in Texas with her husband, said the faithful can just hold off the flu bug by repeating: “I’ll never have the flu. I’ll never have the flu.”

“Well, listen, partners, we don’t have a flu season,” she said in a video posted on the ministries’ Facebook page last week. “And don’t receive it when somebody threatens you with, ‘Everybody’s getting the flu.’ We’ve already had our shot: He bore our sicknesses and carried our diseases. That’s what we stand on.”

And for those who are already fighting with the flu, Copeland ordered the bug out.

“Flu, I bind you off of the people in the name of Jesus,” she said, “Jesus himself gave us the flu shot. He redeemed us from the curse of flu, and we receive it and we take it, and we are healed by his strifes, amen.”

Health experts have warned that this flu season is the worst since the swine-flu pandemic in 2009.
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An 8-year-old girl from Queens died on Monday from the flu, ​the second child fatality in New York City in a week.

At least 19 states have reported at least one pediatric death from the flu this season.