Lancet withdraws Chinese nurses' letter on COVID-19 after they say it was not first-hand

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British medical journal the Lancet on Thursday (Feb 27) retracted a letter from two Chinese nurses purporting to be on the front line of the ...

BEIJING: British medical journal the Lancet on Thursday retracted a letter from two Chinese nurses purporting to be on the front line of the, saying the authors had requested that it be withdrawn because it was not a first-hand account.

In the letter, published in the journal on Feb 24, the nurses, who work at hospitals in the southern province of Guangdong, said they had gone to Wuhan, the city at the centre of the epidemic, to work in isolation wards and"On Feb 26, 2020, we were informed by the authors of this correspondence that the account described therein was not a first-hand account, as the authors had claimed, and that they wished to withdraw the piece.

 

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