Emily
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You want to do what? Paper on anal swabs for COVID-19 retracted for ethical issues
An article claiming that anal swabs can be used to detect SARS-CoV-2 in patients cured of Covid-19 has been retracted after the journal found that the authors failed to get permission from the patients to conduct the study.
To be clear: We?re not sure if the researchers ? from Weihai Municipal Hospital, in Shandong, China ? didn?t tell the patients they were taking anal swabs (which seems, well, unlikely) or that they didn?t tell them they would be using the results of the swabs in a study (the more reasonable interpretation). But the notice is vague on that point.
https://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/10.2217/fmb-2020-0090r1
You want to do what? Paper on anal swabs for COVID-19 retracted for ethical issues
An article claiming that anal swabs can be used to detect SARS-CoV-2 in patients cured of Covid-19 has been retracted after the journal found that the authors failed to get permission from the patients to conduct the study.
To be clear: We?re not sure if the researchers ? from Weihai Municipal Hospital, in Shandong, China ? didn?t tell the patients they were taking anal swabs (which seems, well, unlikely) or that they didn?t tell them they would be using the results of the swabs in a study (the more reasonable interpretation). But the notice is vague on that point.
https://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/10.2217/fmb-2020-0090r1