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Papers are unravelling? What does it mean? Does it mean "papers are revealing something important"? Some nuance here appears to be elusive to me.
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A mysterious company’s coronavirus papers in top medical journals may be unraveling
On its face, it was a major finding: Antimalarial drugs touted by the White House as possible COVID-19 treatments looked to be not just ineffective, but downright deadly. A study published on 22 May in The Lancet used hospital records procured by a little-known data analytics company called Surgisphere to conclude that coronavirus patients taking chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine were more likely to show an irregular heart rhythm—a known side effect thought to be rare—and were more likely to die in the hospital.
Source: Science [FONT="]Jun. 2, 2020[/FONT]
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...papers-top-medical-journals-may-be-unraveling
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A mysterious company’s coronavirus papers in top medical journals may be unraveling
On its face, it was a major finding: Antimalarial drugs touted by the White House as possible COVID-19 treatments looked to be not just ineffective, but downright deadly. A study published on 22 May in The Lancet used hospital records procured by a little-known data analytics company called Surgisphere to conclude that coronavirus patients taking chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine were more likely to show an irregular heart rhythm—a known side effect thought to be rare—and were more likely to die in the hospital.
Source: Science [FONT="]Jun. 2, 2020[/FONT]
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...papers-top-medical-journals-may-be-unraveling