...HCQ was offlabel at the start of COVID because it looked hopeful as a tx, it was safe, it was cheap, and there were no toher options at the time. There was even a niche for which it was given a rec as a tx option almost up to a year later. There was no other tx option at the time, and just as with cancer patientss who have nothing else to try except an experimental option, it was a decision normally put into the hands of a doctor and patient given proper counselling with fully informed consent.
But then Trump was given it and got better, and he ballyhood it which was the death knell for it from the liberal perspective. Governors pulled it as an offlabel option when there was nothing else to try at the time. The media went after it, etc.. Officials in concert with the media also tried to falsely portray the very well known and widely used HCQ as causing dangerously high rate of arrhythmias which was also untrue.
Now, there are definitiely better options now that are proven. At the time, i said that this might not be effective, but it was consistent with othe offlabel uses. I also said then, and say again now that it was extremely unethical of Dems to limit the use of the drug as offlabel at the time.
I have never advocated ivermection etc..that was other posters.
Fauci didn't "evolve" in his understanding...he lied. He didn't say, "we don't know yet, but this is our best guess, and it might be subject to change". Instead he spoke definitively and said their ws evidence to back him up. Scientific fact doesn't change. He never had those facts to back him.
Anyways, I will try to be patient with you and your lies. It has to be hard to watch as everything I told you turns out to be true.