Table 1.

The inaccuracies and inconsistencies or mistakes in the abstract

1	Efficient instead of effectiveness (reported twice)
2	Patients included instead of enrolled
3	Role of hydroxychloroquine should be efficacy and safety
4	On respiratory viral load should be on nasopharyngeal viral load
5	Single arm while later in the abstract it is comparative to negative control
6	Patients included in a protocol instead of a study
7	Negative control instead of standard of care control
8	Early March to March 16th not precise. The study was approved on the 4th of March not clear when it started.
9	Viral load was tested instead of was measured
10	Hydroxychoroquine not specified on the top of standard of care
11	Azithromycin appears as a new intervention not described in the methodology nor in the protocol.
12	Untreated patients from another center should be from 4 other centers
13	Presence of virus at day 6 was the primary end point while it was supposed to be at day 7 in the protocol and the protocol specify the objective is to measure time to clearance of virus load.
14	While the study did not measure time to virus clearance it concluded at a reduction of carrying duration
15	Survey instead of study