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The authors want to alert the readers on the three references cited in their paper which are of scientifically doubtful credibility.

Regarding our paper entitled “SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in SLE patients,” it has come to our attention that the authors of references 56–58 have been sanctioned multiple times for misrepresentation of credentials, intellectual dishonesty and violations of good clinical practice and scientific method in clinical and epidemiologic studies. For this reason, references 56–58 must be considered unreliable.