The deception of HCQ being unsafe is terrible. The reason and the sample data they used to achieve such reason was a total fraud....people taking 5-20x more than the highest recommended dose.
The QT prolongation is a common characteristic of 100s of safe medicines, including some over the counter. The microseconds of change it can cause is negligible unless people are taking massive quantities of the drug, are taking multiple drugs that cause the same thing, are renally impaired or are taking multiple meds that are competing with the same metabolic and excretion pathways.
The study group they used KNEW what they were doing was unsafe and continued to do it anyways, thus causing some atrial fibulations. This is the data they used to say the drug was "unsafe", ignoring decades of safety and efficacy data with hundreds of millions of doses.
Why would Fauci do that? He is not dumb, he knows what the data says. Hell, he studied and endorsed it.