Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Jun 2020
The Lancet, New England Journal retract COVID-19 studies, including one that raised safety concerns about malaria drugs
4 June 2020 - The Lancet, one of the world’s top medical journals, on Thursday retracted an influential study that raised alarms about the safety of the experimental COVID-19 treatments chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine amid scrutiny of the data underlying the paper.
Just over an hour later, the New England Journal of Medicine retracted a separate study, focused on blood pressure medications in COVID-19, that relied on data from the same company.
The retractions came at the request of the authors of the studies, published last month, who were not directly involved with the data collection and sources, the journals said.
