Century-old tuberculosis vaccine might be a weapon against coronavirus

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In Australia, 4,000 health care workers were injected with the vaccine.

” If we discover that the BCG vaccine and its ability to increase the immune system does decrease the severity of COVID-19[…] we would have something kind of off the rack that we can use, ideally, throughout this pandemic or if there was a 2nd wave,” stated teacher Nigel Curtis of the Murdoch Children’s Research study Institute in Australia.

The majority of individuals in South Africa were injected with the BCG vaccine when they were kids.