I hope you're not using the Short Sales Volume numbers....I'd expect you to know that they aren't the same thing.
Not sure who the "noted market manipulator spreading false innuendo on a stock up 4x in a week" but there's plenty of that going around....the phrase "can't swing a dead cat without hitting" one comes to mind. Almost all of the CV treatment/vaccine "benefactors" will come back to earth, some sooner than others.