Misguided Use of Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19: The Infusion of Politics Into Science.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

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Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. No Causal Effects Detected in COVID-19 and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Two Sample Mendelian Randomization Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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2. Impact of COVID-19 on Otolaryngology Literature.The Laryngoscope · 2022
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3. Ivermectin for the Treatment of Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2022
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4. Hydroxychloroquine to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection among healthcare workers: early termination of a phase 3, randomised, open-label, controlled clinical trial.BMC research notes · 2023
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5. Partisanship, Messaging, and the COVID-19 Vaccine: Evidence From Survey Experiments.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2022
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6. COVID-19 and a Tale of Three Drugs: To Repurpose, or Not to Repurpose-That Was the Question.Viruses · 2025
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9. Seeing together: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic on understanding evidence.Healthcare management forum · 2024
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10. Enabling Semantic Topic Modeling on Twitter Using MetaMap.AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science · 2024
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11. A comment-driven evidence appraisal approach to promoting research findings into practice when only uncertain evidence is available.Health research policy and systems · 2023
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12. A Case of Pharmaceutical Messianism Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Infodemiological Study of Ivermectin in the Philippines.Policy, politics & nursing practice · 2023
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13. Evaluation of Global Post-Outbreak COVID-19 Treatment Interventions: A Systematic Review and Bibliometric Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2023
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14. Illicit COVID-19 products online: A mixed-method approach for identifying and preventing online health risks.PloS one · 2023
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15. Use of Human Lung Tissue Models for Screening of Drugs against SARS-CoV-2 Infection.Viruses · 2022
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16. The cross-over of statistical thinking and practices: A pandemic catalyst.Pharmaceutical statistics · 2022
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17. Hydroxychloroquine Causes Early Inner Retinal Toxicity and Affects Autophagosome-Lysosomal Pathway and Sphingolipid Metabolism in the Retina.Molecular neurobiology · 2022
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18. Ethical challenges of prospective clinical trials during the COVID-19 pandemic.Expert review of anti-infective therapy · 2022
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19. Therapeutic potential of N-acetyl cysteine during COVID-19 epoch.World journal of virology · 2022
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20. Social Media and COVID-19-Perceptions and Public Deceptions of Ivermectin, Colchicine and Hydroxychloroquine: Lessons for Future Pandemics.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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Corrections and comments

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  Effect of Hydroxychloroquine on Clinical Status at 14 Days in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial.2020

Authors and funding

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