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I have never heard of that news source, Connexion France. The language is all over the place. I’d be highly skeptical of that source. The hospital quoted isn’t one of the main institute that would have a direct mandate from the government: Institut Pasteur (in spite of being private) would the reference research center for infectious diseases.

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Institut Pasteur is not the only research body in France regarding infectious diseases... They are directly linked to the Marseille University Hospital (AP-HM) and all the usual public research bodies like INSERM, CNRS.

If you want another source than connexion France, you have this article from Le Monde: https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2020/03/17/la-chloro...

Are you highly skeptical of Le Monde?

I would be skeptical of _Le Monde_ too indeed. My point was that particular site had all the flavours of the fake news site that had mushroomed in the last year, with non-sensical translations and controversial content.

Before anyone raids pharmacies, I’d rather have a vigorous debate with peers, clear methodology, etc.

The domain appears to have been registered in 2004.

They state they've been around since 2002: https://www.connexionfrance.com/About-Us-Legal-Information

That page doesn’t really look like most reasonable media ‘About Us’ page: no by-line, no photos, link to PO boxes or AWS (!), unclear editorial line. I’m happy there is a (generic) name for the editor but the rest wouldn’t really count as a positive to me.

It'd be easier if you pointed out what about their site set you off into thinking it was fake news conspiracy pushing publication...

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