BCG Vaccine does not Protect Against COVID-19

A recent article by Jop de Vrieze (March 23, 2020) suggested that BCG vaccine could protect against COVID-19 infections. The arguments were that several European countries, like Italy, Spain, France, and Germany, which are badly affected by COVID-19, and the USA stopped vaccination of the general po...

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Published inThe open respiratory medicine journal Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 45 - 46
Main Authors Allam, Mohamed F, Amin, Ghada E El-D
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United Arab Emirates Bentham Science Publishers 2020
Subjects
Respiratory Medicine
COVID-19
Vaccine
Review
Immunity
Antiviral treatments
BCG
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Summary:A recent article by Jop de Vrieze (March 23, 2020) suggested that BCG vaccine could protect against COVID-19 infections. The arguments were that several European countries, like Italy, Spain, France, and Germany, which are badly affected by COVID-19, and the USA stopped vaccination of the general population by BCG and excluded it from their routine vaccination schedule. Many people started to receive doses of BCG based on that hypothesis even before its confirmation. We think that the BCG vaccine could not protect against COVID-19 because several countries like China and Iran, which are severely affected by COVID-19, still include the BCG vaccine in its routine vaccination schedule. Other arguments include that the BCG vaccine improves cell-mediated immunity with little effect on humoral immunity; Immunity against viruses, in general, is mainly humoral.
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ISSN:1874-3064
1874-3064
DOI:10.2174/1874306402014010045