"The Lancet paper that halted global trials of hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 because of fears of increased deaths has been retracted after a Guardian investigation found inconsistencies in the data. ...
The journal’s editor, Richard Horton, said he was appalled by developments. “This is a shocking example of research misconduct in the middle of a global health emergency,” he told the Guardian."
Trump was ridculed for backing this drug. Now the drug is again politically acceptable.
How was it that WHO walked away from Covid testing of a drug widely used for malaria, on the grounds that the drug had excessive mortality rate in Covid19 cases? Surely such a mortality rate should have triggered investigations about its suitability for malaria.
Science or politics?
The same question could be directed at the original Covid19 model from Imperial College London. The model was not peer-reviewed and turned out to be disastrously wrong with politicians using it to put millions out of work and many out of home.
"About 150 years ago, scientists painstakingly constructed a set of principles that can prove whether a particular microbe is the cause of a specific disease or is just a bystander. Those three principles are known as the Koch postulates.
From all the available information, the novel coronavirus doesn’t appear to meet any of these tenets, never mind all three."