An Instagram post from popular QAnon account JOKAQARMY claims that on March 1, 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases “sent an attachment titled 'HCQ, A Modest Proposal for Mitigating COVID-19 2.0.pdf.”
HCQ is a common abbreviation for hydroxychloroquine, a drug used to combat malaria that was controversially heralded as a possible miracle cure and prophylactic for coronavirus by President Donald Trump.
Alec Dent is a former culture editor and staff writer for The Dispatch.
