WASHINGTON, June 5 — The Lancet yesterday retracted a study that raised safety fears over the use of a drug favoured by President Donald Trump to treat Covid-19, after the paper’s authors said they could no longer vouch for its underlying data. It was soon followed by the withdrawal of another...
Hydroxychloroquine, normally used to treat arthritis, is one of an array of drugs being tested as scientists look for potential treatments for coronavirus patients. ― AFP picyesterday retracted a study that raised safety fears over the use of a drug favoured by President Donald Trump to treat Covid-19, after the paper’s authors said they could no longer vouch for its underlying data.Medicine that was not linked to hydroxychloroquine but relied upon the same healthcare company’s patient database.
Mandeep Mehra, a professor at Harvard University who led the work, along with Frank Ruschitzka of the University Hospital Zurich and Amit Patel of the University of Utah, said in a statement yesterday they had tried to launch a third-party peer review. “We deeply apologise to you, the editors, and the journal readership for any embarrassment or inconvenience that this may have caused.”, a British journal, offered its own statement, saying, “There are many outstanding questions about Surgisphere and the data that were allegedly included in this study.”
One such trial that was published Wednesday found the drug was not significantly better than a placebo in preventing the disease among people who had been recently exposed to the virus. The firm was involved in yet another attention-grabbing study that found the anti-parasite drug ivermectin could be useful against Covid-19.
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