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> did the author of the original paper go on Tucker Carlson and say that it's 100% effective

He did so, in French but he absolutely offered to go on the French talk shows, with a clear snide to Cauhet, the French equivalent of Tucker Carlson, because people who were not him where scaring people into quarantine while he “has a treatment that cheap, reliable and safe”. So yes, he absolutely did that.

There was no reason to make his presentation public beyond specialists — hell, he quotes studies on the same molecule who have shared temporary results without the same publicity.