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Influential Lancet hydroxychloroquine study retracted by 3 authors (https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/hydroxychloroquine-covid-lancet-1.5598761 https://www.cbc.ca/
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Influential Lancet hydroxychloroquine study retracted by 3 authors (https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/hydroxychloroquine-covid-lancet-1.5598761 https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/hydroxychloroquine-covid-lanc...)
> Three of the authors of an influential article that found hydroxychloroquine increased the risk of death in COVID-19 patients retracted the study on concerns about the quality of the data....
> Results of a [different] high-quality randomized, placebo-control trial also published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine from U.S. and Canadian researchers showed hydroxychloroquine was no better than placebo pills at preventing illness from the coronavirus.