Mandatory country-wide BCG vaccination found to correlate with slower growth rates of COVID-19 cases

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/aaft-mcb073120.php

News Release 31-Jul-2020
American Association for the Advancement of Science


Scientists have found that countries with mandatory Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination until at least the year 2000 tended to exhibit slower infection and death rates during the first 30 days of the outbreak of COVID-19 in their country. By applying a statistical model based on their findings, the researchers further estimated that only 468 people would likely have died from COVID-19 in the U.S. as of March 29, 2020 - which is 19% of the actual figure of 2,467 deaths by that date - if the U.S. had instituted mandatory BCG vaccination several decades ago.

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