Author: Pereira, Marcos; Paixão, Enny; Trajman, Anete; de Souza, Ramon Andrade; da Natividade, Marcio Santos; Pescarini, Julia M.; Pereira, Susan Martins; Barreto, Florisneide Rodrigues; Ximenes, Ricardo; Dalcomo, Margareth; Ichihara, Maria Yury; Nunes, Ceuci; Barral-Netto, Manoel; Barreto, MaurÃcio L.
Title: The need for fast-track, high-quality and low-cost studies about the role of the BCG vaccine in the fight against COVID-19 Cord-id: j1yu40gq Document date: 2020_7_11
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Snippet: Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination is routine and near-universal in many low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). It has been suggested that BCG can have a protective effect on COVID-19 morbidity and mortality. This commentary discusses the limitations of the evidence around BCG and COVID-19. We argue that higher-quality evidence is necessary to understand the protective effect of the BCG vaccine from existing, secondary data, while we await results from clinical trials currently conduc
Document: Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination is routine and near-universal in many low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). It has been suggested that BCG can have a protective effect on COVID-19 morbidity and mortality. This commentary discusses the limitations of the evidence around BCG and COVID-19. We argue that higher-quality evidence is necessary to understand the protective effect of the BCG vaccine from existing, secondary data, while we await results from clinical trials currently conducted in different settings.
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