The eventual withdrawal of this study, after significant critiques regarding its ethics and data quality, represents a crucial turning point in COVID-19 research credibility.
This paper should never have been published - or it should have been retracted immediately after its publication. Its influence on hydroxychloroquine's approval was harmful.
Because it contributed so much to the HCQ hype, the most important unintended effect of this study was to partially side-track and slow down the development of anti-COVID-19 drugs.
The retraction of the most-cited COVID-19 paper emphasizes the importance of rigorous ethical standards and data integrity in scientific research.
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