Can you pray the coronavirus away?
A new scientific study is examining the power of prayer in those fighting for their lives from COVID-19 — testing for “true supernatural intervention,” according to a report.
The Kansas City Heart Rhythm Institute is testing 1,000 patients in intensive care with the contagion — with half getting a “universal” prayer offered in five denominational forms.
The four-month study will then compare death rates as well as time in ICU and on ventilators.
“We all believe in science, and we also believe in faith,” the study’s lead investigator, cardiologist Dr. Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, told NPR.
“If there is a supernatural power, which a lot of us believe, would that power of prayer and divine intervention change the outcomes in a concerted fashion? That was our question.”
He stressed, “It has to be a true supernatural intervention.”
Lakkireddy admitted that even his own wife, a fellow physician, is “skeptical.”
“But it’s not like we’re putting anyone at risk,” he told NPR. “A miracle could happen. There’s always hope, right?”
The study is formally investigating “the role of remote intercessory multi-denominational prayer on clinical outcomes in COVID-19 patients,” according to its listing on the National Institutes of Health. The prayer is offered in variations for Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism.
“I believe in the power of all religions,” Lakkireddy told NPR.
“I think if we believe in the wonders of God and the universal good of any religion, then we’ve got to combine hands and join the forces of each of these faiths together for the single cause of saving humanity from this pandemic.”
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