‘The controversy is an unfortunate distraction, says Miguel HernĂ¡n, a Harvard epidemiologist and co-investigator on an ongoing trial of hydroxychloroquine in Spain and Latin America. “If you do something as inflammatory as this without a solid foundation, you are going to make a lot of people waste time trying to understand what is going on.” Chaccour says both NEJM and The Lancet should have scrutinized the provenance of Surgisphere's data more closely before publishing the studies. “Here we are in the middle of a pandemic with hundreds of thousands of deaths, and the two most prestigious medical journals have failed us,” he says.’
Read here (Science Magazine, June 5, 2020)
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John Campbell shares his findings on Omicron. View here (Youtube, Nov 27, 2021)
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