BCG vaccine protection from severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Luis E. Escobar; Alvaro Molina-Cruz; Carolina Barillas‐Mury · 2020 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Abstract
Significance The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most devastating in recent history. The bacillus Calmette−Guérin (BCG) vaccine against tuberculosis also confers broad protection against other infectious diseases, and it has been proposed that it could reduce the severity of COVID-19. This epidemiological study assessed the global linkage between BCG vaccination and COVID-19 mortality. Signals of BCG vaccination effect on COVID-19 mortality are influenced by social, economic, and demographic differences between countries. After mitigating multiple confounding factors, several significant assoc
Abstract by Luis E. Escobar; Alvaro Molina-Cruz; Carolina Barillas‐Mury, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2020) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1073/pnas.2008410117