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SUBMITTER: Pereira M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7351640 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pereira Marcos M Paixão Enny E Trajman Anete A de Souza Ramon Andrade RA da Natividade Marcio Santos MS Pescarini Julia M JM Pereira Susan Martins SM Barreto Florisneide Rodrigues FR Ximenes Ricardo R Dalcomo Margareth M Ichihara Maria Yury MY Nunes Ceuci C Barral-Netto Manoel M Barreto Maurício L ML
Respiratory research 20200711 1
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 conduct ...[more]