Why the article that led to the widespread use of hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 should be retracted

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Intensive Care Medicine, CHR Metz-Thionville, 57530 Ars-Laquenexy, France. Electronic address: d.barraud@chr-metz-thionville.fr.
• ² Media and Information Technology, Linköping University, 581 83 Norrköping, Sweden.
• ³ Harbers Bik LLC, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• ⁴ 67000 Strasbourg, France.
• ⁵ Department of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, University Rouen, 76031 Rouen cedex, France.
• ⁶ Essaouira, Morocco.
• ⁷ Department of Plant Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne (UNIL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ⁸ Inserm, département de santé publique, institut Pierre-Louis d'épidémiologie et de santé publique, centre de pharmacoépidémiologie, Sorbonne université, hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, 75231 Paris, France.
• ⁹ IPLESP, Sorbonne université, hôpital Saint-Antoine, AP-HP, 75231 Paris, France.
• ¹⁰ School of Medicine, université Paris-Cité, 75106 Paris, France.
• ¹¹ Service de pharmacologie CHU de Bordeaux, université de Bordeaux, 33600 Pessac, France.
• ¹² Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland; University of Neuchâtel, Hospital Network of Neuchâtel, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
• ¹³ 06000 Nice, France.