Current national policies for infant universal bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccination were associated with lower mortality from coronavirus disease 2019.
Clin Exp Vaccine Res
; 9(2): 179-182, 2020 Jul.
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| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-854629
ABSTRACT
An exciting debate has emerged whether bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination is effective for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Some advocated that BCG-vaccinated people are less suffered from the virus because BCG vaccination is recommendedin COVID-19 high burden countries. However, the others objected because this seemingly attractive relationship is explainable with confounding factors. In a multiple regression with 171 countries adjusting socioeconomical and climatic covariates, countries with current universal pediatric BCG policy were associated with 30-fold (95% confidence interval, 17-52) decrease of COVID-19 mortality per population compared to countries without the policy.
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Vaccines
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Clin Exp Vaccine Res
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2020
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Cevr.2020.9.2.179
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