Kansas City: An Indian-American physician in Kansas City has begun a study to find if something called remote intercessory prayer might initiate God to heal those infected with the coronavirus.
Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy launched the four-month prayer study on Friday, May 1 which involves 1,000 coronavirus patients who are in intensive care.
In the study, none of the patients’ prescribed standard care will be changed. They will be divided into two groups of 500 each and prayers will be offered for one of the groups.
Also, neither group will be informed about the prayers. The four-month study will investigate “the role of remote intercessory multi-denominational prayer on clinical outcomes in COVID-19 patients,” according to a description provided to the National Institutes of Health.
