AMERICAN CHRISTIAN #59
“Fear Kills”
Current Events 9/2021
A newly released study (2021) reports that 28% of 500,000 persons who died from co-morbidity related COVID-19 illness included “fear and anxiety.” Co-morbidity, is other illnesses that contribute a person’s death. Fear and anxiety is listed as #2 co-morbid illness. From the CDC website, “Underlying Medical Conditions and Severe Illness Among 540,667 Adults Hospitalized With COVID-19, March 2020–March 2021.”
Among 4,899,447 hospitalized adults in PHD-SR, 540,667 (11.0%) were patients with COVID-19, of whom 94.9% had at least 1 underlying medical condition. Essential hypertension (50.4%), disorders of lipid metabolism (49.4%), and obesity (33.0%) were the most common. The strongest risk factors for death were obesity (adjusted risk ratio [aRR] = 1.30; 95% CI, 1.27–1.33), anxiety and fear-related disorders (aRR = 1.28; 95% CI, 1.25–1.31), and diabetes with complication (aRR = 1.26; 95% CI, 1.24–1.28), as well as the total number of conditions, with aRRs of death ranging from 1.53 (95% CI, 1.41–1.67) for patients with 1 condition to 3.82 (95% CI, 3.45–4.23) for patients with more than 10 conditions (compared with patients with no conditions).
Ref: https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2021/21_0123.htm
Fear is an emotion and a spirit. Fear and faith are opposites, let’s go to the text:
1 John 4:17-18
By this ais love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
Come along with as we look at the impact of this CDC study and the power of fear and the absolute power of PERFECT LOVE. Also, Dr Nichols imparts the Father’s love on our listeners.
(26 mins)
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