{"id":8359,"date":"2024-12-18T09:21:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T15:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8359"},"modified":"2024-12-18T11:15:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T17:15:18","slug":"study-retracted-years-after-it-set-off-an-infamous-covid-19-treatment-scandalbird-flu-detected-in-west-michigan-commercial-poultry-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/12\/18\/study-retracted-years-after-it-set-off-an-infamous-covid-19-treatment-scandalbird-flu-detected-in-west-michigan-commercial-poultry-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Study retracted years after it set off an infamous COVID-19 treatment scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2024\/12\/17\/hydroxychloroquine-study-covid-19-retracted-trump\/77051671007\/\">USA Today<\/a> A discredited study that set off a flurry of interest in using an antimalarial drug to treat COVID-19 has now been formally withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A scientific journal on Tuesday&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0924857920300996\">retracted the March 2020 study<\/a>&nbsp;that introduced the world to hydroxychloroquine early in the COVID-19 pandemic \u2013 and confirmed that the attention was undeserved from the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The antimalarial drug was briefly touted as a possible treatment for the novel coronavirus at a time when little else was available. This early study was published just as countries were shutting down and hospital wards and morgues were filling up. It offered a glimmer of hope when doctors has few treatments available for the newly emerged virus with as it killed tens of thousands of people in its first wave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But fellow scientists quickly raised doubts about the study&#8217;s size, scientific flaws and ethics. Follow-up studies failed to confirm its findings.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2024\/12\/17\/hydroxychloroquine-study-covid-19-retracted-trump\/77051671007\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\" c ouk KsfebqlrkFS aWMivq W\"> c ouk KsfebqlrkFS aWMivq W<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today A discredited study that set off a flurry of interest in using an antimalarial drug to treat COVID-19 has now been formally withdrawn. A scientific journal on Tuesday&nbsp;retracted the March 2020 study&nbsp;that introduced the world to hydroxychloroquine early in the COVID-19 pandemic \u2013 and confirmed that the attention was undeserved from the start. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8373,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8359\/revisions\/8373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}