I ran across a sort-of meme today. It was some text claiming that some new facts had surfaced about how much Fauci knew about the effectiveness of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as a treatment against SARS-CoV, and when he knew it.
You can see the whole image here.
There were some pretty concrete statements in the text, so I decided to see if I could determine how factual it is.
The title of the text is “Well, well, well…look at what the hell just surfaced”. There is no post date included with the text but after a little digging, I found that this is just a cut and paste from an article first published on the True Pundit web site on July 6th of 2020. So, the information didn’t “just surface”, it’s been around for more than a year.
Strike 1 for the meme because it implies new information that isn’t new.
The snipped text doesn’t actually say that HCQ will prevent or cure SARS-CoV-2. It only mentions SARS-CoV, which isn’t the same thing. Most people are going to do a quick read and assume that it talks about COVID-19, when it doesn’t. So, strike 2 for the meme (and shame on whoever cut-and-pasted) because it’s purposely misleading.
I’m going to go ahead and give the “meme” 1 out of 5 stars because it is just another example of misleading and incomplete information. If it had included a link to the original article I might give it 4 or 5 stars. But it didn’t, so 1 star it is.
Let’s keep going.
I want to point out that the original text in the True Pundit article doesn’t hide the fact that it was first published last year, and it provides plenty of context so as not to be misleading to the reader. If you haven’t read it, you should. It’s pretty good. Just remember some of the time frames and numbers mentioned have changed considerably.
While the “meme” itself is misleading, the paper it almost cited does have some interesting/relevant information.
It referenced a paper published on August 22, 2005, in The Virology Journal which is claimed to be the official publication of the National Institute of Health (NIH). I can’t prove or disprove that Virology Journal (not sure if “The” is significant) is officially an NIH publication. But here’s what I did discover.
The referenced paper is easy enough to find. It took me about a minute. I wasn’t sure about the reputation of the site I found it on, so I dug a little deeper. In about another minute, I was able to find the same paper on the CDC Web site.
All eight authors of the paper have @.cdc.gov email addresses. So, it’s certain that this document was known about at the CDC. Did Fauci know about it?
Fauci is the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The NIAID is part of the NIH which is NOT part of the CDC.
So, it’s possible that Fauci wasn’t aware of this paper. But, is it likely? I don’t think so. As the person responsible for protecting the United States from infectious diseases, he should have been aware of anything that looked even remotely like it might fight an infectious disease.
Then, I looked a little further.
I found the same paper on the NIH web site. So, now we know that the paper cited was readily available to NIH, and therefore NIAID personnel, and therefore to Fauci.
Conclusion: There is no possible way Fauci wasn’t aware of this research.
The paper makes some bold claims. Eight scientists from the CDC determined back in 2005 that HCQ was potentially an effective treatment against SARS-CoV, which is essentially SARS-CoV-2 before it got the Fauci-funded let’s-make-it-really-dangerous upgrade.
In a laboratory setting, the eight scientists from the CDC found, as a preventative measure against SARS-CoV, HCQ can be 100% effective in preventing the disease. As a “cure”, HCQ can potentially reduce the seriousness of an infection by 96%.
Here’s an image from the paper:
That is far better than what the vackseens are either promising or delivering.
Now, just because something works on SARS 1.0 doesn’t mean it will work on SARS 2.0. And just because something works in a petri dish doesn’t mean that it will work in real life. But I find it interesting that the results reported in the paper seem to be identical to the results that doctors who treat COVID-19 patients with HCQ are reporting.
It appears that as early as 16 years ago it was known that HCQ might be a potential weapon against SARS-CoV 1.0. Anyone with any kind of sense at all would think that it also might work for SARS-CoV-2.
It’s nearly impossible for me to believe that while Fauci was funding research to make a deadly pathogen even deadlier, and war-gaming a potential pandemic, he didn’t know about this paper.
Had I been running the NIAID, I would have hedged my bet by pursuing readily-available drugs at the same time as investing in the development of new therapies. Any reasonable person would.
But, I’m not running the NIAID and neither is any other reasonable person. Fauci is. Rather than hedge his bet, Fauci went all in on experimental drugs that come with many serious side effects and have questionable efficacy.
And, he’s betting your life that he’s right.
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