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Protests raise concerns of COVID-19 spread; Researchers retract hydroxycholorquine study

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Some governments have urged would-be protesters to move their activism out of the streets over fears of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Researchers retracted a study in the Lancet medical journal over risks of hydroxychloroquine. US President Donald Trump tweeted a letter calling demonstrators in Washington, DC, “terrorists.”

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