Why did Fauxi praise this very same drug back in 2013 as a treatment for the MERS coronavirus, a relative of COVID-19?

At the time, Barack Obama was occupying the White House, and an NAIAD study conducted by a guy named Darryl Falzarano found that an antiviral cocktail containing hydroxychloroquine showed incredible promise in vitro for preventing viral replication. Fauci jumped at the chance to praise the discovery, announcing that it was “particularly encouraging” because these drugs are “widely available,” meaning they can get into the hands of people who need them quickly and easily.


https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-04-12-f...-mers-2013.html

We all know why! The same reason he told people to wash their hands and carry on in 2009 when the novel H1N1 flu, for which no one had immuniity and there wasn't a vaccine, was killing people including children.