Media: HCQ doesn't work!! Yet back in 2005 some U.S. team found it worked on SARS

Once Trump mentioned a drug called hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as a "possible game changer" for the chinese virus, the Lying Mainstream Media immediately began ridiculing it as not only not effective, but actually horribly, terribly DANGEROUS. 

Fauci agreed, saying no evidence of help AT ALL, and instead pushed a new antiviral being developed by Gilead--which appeared likely to cost thousands of dollars per treatment.  Fauci mentioned the company by name, praising it, so many times that one wonders if he has a beneficial interest in it.

An opthamologist at University of Virginia collected the names of some VA patients who'd been given the drug, and claimed no benefit.  The media called this absurd collection a "study" and claimed the drug was now thoroughly discredited.  Then they smugly congratulate themselves on another successful anti-Trump mission.

Now we find that in 2005 some quack outfit actually ran tests on a related drug, chloroquine, and found this:

Chloroquine is effective in preventing the spread of SARS CoV in cell culture. Favorable inhibition of virus spread was observed when the cells were either treated with chloroquine prior to or after SARS CoV infection.

Gosh, what outfit would have the brazen temerity to disagree with Fauci, eh?  Oh yeah: it was the NIH--National Institutes of Health...the same NIH Fauci works for.  Hmmm....

And let me add here that HCQ is both safer and more effective than chloroquine.  Hmmm...