Is BCG vaccination causally related to reduced COVID‐19 mortality?

The ongoing severe acute respiratory sickness coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) pandemic has resulted in more than 3,600,000 detected cases of COVID‐19 illness and nearly 260,000 deaths worldwide as of May 6, 2020. Recently, BCG vaccination was shown to correlate with reduced COVID‐19 case fatality rates (...

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Main Author: Masayuki Miyasaka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2020-06-01
Series:EMBO Molecular Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.15252/emmm.202012661