Did Fauci Send an Email Touting Hydroxychloroquine as a COVID Treatment?

He forwarded a document making the claim, but he did not endorse it.

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An Instagram post from popular QAnon account JOKAQARMY claims that on March 1, 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases β€œsent an attachment titled ‘HCQ, A Modest Proposal for Mitigating COVID-19 2.0.pdf.”

https://www.instagram.com/p/CPntNUpjqYw

HCQ is a common abbreviation for hydroxychloroquine, a drug used to combat malaria that was controversially heralded as a possible miracle cure and prophylactic for coronavirus by President Donald Trump. Hydroxychloroquine was found to be ineffective against the coronavirus, and is not advised for use to treat COVID-19 because of the risk of cardiac events.

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  1. Daniel

    I see you guys are really punching up with your fact checks. Keep speaking truth to power.

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    MatthewRobin

    Alex Dent, with regards to time allocation this is a silly fact check. If you want to fact check something important, fact check the notion that the police kill thousands of unarmed black people each year. https://www.skeptic.com/research-center/reports/Research-Report-CUPES-007.pdf

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  3. Alex DeLarge

    The Dispatch is a paid Facebook lackey. FB wanted this straw man claim rated "false," so TD obliged in return for an undisclosed payment. Is my claim false?

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    Show Jay Janney the πŸšͺ!

    Did the Instagram account formally claim Fauci endorsed HDQ? If not, why include that in the fact check, unless you enjoy editorializing. The claim was he sent it--if we can believe the fact checkers, that is true. Did he endorse it? Just as much as he criticized it.

    He punted on it, sending it to someone with a "do what you think is appropriate". That's management speak for "π‘»π’‚π’ˆ! 𝒀𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 π’Šπ’•, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 π’’π’–π’Šπ’•".

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  5. Ryan

    The HCQ battle was one of the strangest episodes of the Covid Culture Wars. I am still really not sure what to think about it (I'll leave that to the medical professionals), but it was certainly a harbinger of things to come

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    Aylene Wright

    Congratulations, I am sure that the "leaked Fauci emails" will continue to provide Fact check fodder for the rest of the month at least! (I know they were not actually leaked but many of the more outlandish claims about them claim they were to embellish the "here is a smoking gun THEY don't want you to know about" narrative.

    BTW this isn't to say that Fauci doesn't deserve any criticism, but the wackier ones just distract from the serious ones.

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