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Exhibit 1024

Expression of concern: Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis

Exhibit 1024 ยท Journal notice

Expression of concern: Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis

we are issuing an Expression of Concern to alert readers to the fact that serious scientific questions have been brought to our attention.

The journal's editors issued an expression of concern on a paper published online on 22 May 2020, stating that important scientific questions had been raised about the data and that an independent audit commissioned by authors not affiliated with the data vendor was under way.

Source
The Lancet (editors)
Date
June 2020
Quoted from
Notice text (PubMed 32504543; PMC7269709)
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31290-3
Accessed
2026-11-10
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Finding INF-3.3
Primary record Wiley's fiscal 2024 Form 10-K states that the Hindawi special issues program was suspended in the third quarter of fiscal 2023 because certain special issues contained compromised articles. The Lancet's retraction notice of 5 June 2020 records that three authors requested retraction after the data vendor would not transfer the full dataset for an independent audit and the audit reviewers withdrew.