Say what?! You comparing me to that hairless ape of a DOCTOR?!
As Scott Adams pointed out in his Periscope today, Fauxi is demanding the "gold standard" study - a three-legged stool which is three questions.
Adams: Here's the problem: if you had a drug that was brand new - let's say a vaccine - something that never existed before, you would need to know three things about it. You would need to know the cost, because that makes a difference. You would need to know if it hurts people in the short run and the long run, and you would need to know if it was beneficial at all to the thing you're trying to treat under those conditions.
Fauxi is pretending that we don't know that hydroxychloroquine has been studied for DECADES for short term and long term effects on people.
We can skip that part and go straight to cost, and conclude that we should pass it out like candy to people in the early stages of the Covid, because it's so cheap.
Then we will have massive amounts of data without screwing around with the "does it hurt people" question.
Fauxi is lying by omission because he skips over this part.
He's a quack.
Not in double blind clinical trials it hasn't been, because it is already out there being used in billions of doses per year.