Emergency Use Authorization is only allowed when there are no alternative treatments, however I highly doubt that was their motivation in demonizing ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. Assume their motives were far more sinister.
The EUA angle actually is my hypothesis as to why they pushed IVM and HCQ away so hard.
Remember at the very beginning, Fauci was talking (and emailing - as seen from his FOIA emails) like a rational/intelligent infectious disease doctor? He was honest about the efficacy of masks, he was honest about the likelihood and power of immunity upon recovery. He was honest about how inciting fear in the public was wrong, and pursuing a plan based on "harm reduction" was appropriate. This was every pre-2020 pandemic response plan, and of course Fauci understood all of it well.
Then, Fauci had a meeting with Moderna.
Almost immediately after that, everything changed where he went all-in on lockdowns, masks, and casting doubt on the immunity conferred upon recovery. "Harm reduction" was out the window. Protecting the high-risk was never mentioned (even though there was a clear and well-known, extremely stark risk stratification), because the new message was EVERYONE is - or should consider themselves - high-risk. If not for themselves, for the moral failing they would experience if they contracted it and passed it on to "grandma." The only option we were given from PH was preventing every infection/transmission at any/all cost.
My hypothesis:
In that meeting, where we know from FOIA emails Moderna showed him a little progress they had already made with coding the virus into the mRNA vaccine, they sold him on the idea that they could have a highly-effective vaccine ready for EUA as early as [some very surprisingly early date].
This excited Fauci, as he could imagine all the awards, magazine covers, and his name in lights all over the place as he saved the world from SARS-Cov-2 with this new paradigm of a pandemic response where an mRNA vaccine is so rapidly developed, there is no need to build population immunity via infection/recovery.
Only two things could derail this plan:
1. The population feeling comfortable enough to return to normal (which was likely to happen if the population understood their real odds of an infection being a benign event - and especially if they understood that their recovery conferred immunity).
2. If another drug was found that provided reasonable/considerable efficacy against Covid (because then the EUA would be off the table).
I'm not even going to get into the potential financial incentives (which I think are massive btw) via the relationships with Moderna, as Fauci is such an ego-driven, narcissistic piece of sh*t, I think is visions of hero status were enough for him to go all in on the plan and lead the campaign to take that approach.
What an absolute piece of human garbage. Potentially hundreds of thousands of additional lives lost - in the USA alone - as a result of his uncontrollable narcissism.
