Ground Truth: Host Sam Faddis interviews Dr. Steven Hatfill regarding the COVID-19 pandemic

Sam Faddis talks with Dr. Steven Hatfill a physician and one of the nation’s top virologists about COVID-19 and the nation’s response to the pandemic.

Why did a nation that had been preparing to deal with biological threats for decades have such difficulties in coping with this disease outbreak?

What factors led the federal government to largely abandon the use of hydroxychloroquine, a well-known, safe generic drug as an outpatient treatment? What rationale could possibly explain the decision to allow patients diagnosed with COVID to remain untreated until such time as they required hospitalization in an intensive care unit?

To what extent was the abandonment of the use of hydroxychloroquine driven by the interests of Big Pharma and the need to create a need for a hugely profitable vaccine?

If hydroxychloroquine is not safe and not useful in treating COVID, how do you explain the amazing success of the Indian government in getting the virus under control through the use of the drug?

Dr. Steven Hatfill is a specialist physician and a virologist with a military background and separate master’s degrees in microbial genetics, radiation biochemistry, and experimental pathology. His medical fellowships include Oxford University, the NIH in Bethesda, and the National Research Council where he studied the Ebola Virus at the US Army Institute for Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland.