Chloroquine: Is Didier Raoult right to speak of "fake news" about an American study?

THE QUESTION. The chloroquine debate continues to escalate. Wednesday evening, Professor Didier Raoult, first defender of the hydroxychloroquine-azithromycin (HCQ-AZ) cocktail to fight Covid-19, strongly criticized on Twitter a scientist opposed to its treatment. The latter cited a preliminary American study published Tuesday, which concluded that hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), ineffective with or without azithromycin (AZ), was ineffective.

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"The witch hunter @MicrobiomDigest is not attentive to details when she judges that a study is useful for her paranoid fights!" (...) Fraudulent study. Fake news, " wrote the French biologist, director of the IHU Mediterranean Infection, in English. A little later, Professor Rouault continues, with less virulence: "The study published in pre-print on 04/21 on Medrxiv by Maganoli et al has three major biases which invalidate its conclusions, in any case absurd and incompatible with Literature"

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