Reuters article fact-checking the above statement falsely attributed to Dr. Fauci:

[reuters.com]

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"The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a group of conservative activist doctors who oppose the 2010 health care reform law, the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act."[1] Members of the group also believe that President Obama may have hypnotized voters and that climate legislation is a threat to human health. Some of the group's former leaders were members of the John Birch Society. Mother Jones wrote of the group, "Yet despite the lab coats and the official-sounding name, the docs of the AAPS are hardly part of mainstream medical society. Think Glenn Beck with an MD."[2] The executive director is Jane Orient, an internist and a member of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine."

Lol, they sound very credible.

He got it right

It might be better than no treatment with drugs, but I doubt it will save most patients with Covid nor will it spare them from permanent damage to their lungs and kidneys.

This is hilarious to me . I am too f tired even to elaborate .
All I am gonna say is this :
Case on thursdsy : 33 yr old , waitress , no other issues , symptoms , px plaquenil by primary care to take at home 5 d ays prior , arrived at ED w chest pain , SOB , elevated troponins , and elevated QTC . Plaquenil was d/c immediately . Still impatient at covid unit this morning when I left .

Case Friday : 41 yr old , diabetic , hypertension , symptoms , px plaquenil by primary care to take at home 3 days prior , arrived at ED w chest pain , disoriented , weakness , elevated qtc , plaquenil d/cd , coded last night , currently at micu on a drip recovering from STEMI .
Fuck this , ok ?

Uuuuummmm, I call BS!
AAPS = A conservative association of Pharmacutical Scientists....any agenda, ya think? And how many studies on hydrochloquinone have had to be quickly halted due to major cardiac problems, leading to Higher death rates for the study participants than if they had been given nothing...and, oh, wait, major cardiac problems are a known side effect even in malaria patients who are given it for a Reason?!
And neither of these "attributions" is in quotes, either......