Spurious early ecological association suggesting BCG vaccination effectiveness for COVID-19

<h4>Background</h4> Several ecologic studies have suggested that the bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine may be protective against SARS-CoV-2 infection including a highly-cited published pre-print by Miller et al., finding that middle/high- and high-income countries that never had a u...

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Main Authors: Jorge R. Ledesma, Peter Lurie, Rachel R. Yorlets, Garrison Daly, Stavroula Chrysanthopoulou, Mark N. Lurie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9488757/?tool=EBI