Posted on 04/14/2020 9:05:33 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Coronavirus death rates are nearly six times lower in countries that use a nearly century-old tuberculosis vaccine, a new study found.
The study, conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, found that the COVID-19 mortality rate among countries that use the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination was 5.8 times lower than in those that do not.
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Kind of like using anonymous sources if you ask me. No way to even begin to verify the claims.
That particular vaccine has a not so nice history, even if it does net some immunity to Covid19
Med Cram talked about this back in March. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LqKwAIIy-Mo
BCG seems to strengthen the innate immune system in addition to protecting against TB.
Wouldn’t most of our high risk age group have had this vaccine when they were younger?
Just crappy journalism, because they are too lazy to track that information down and write about it coherently.
Don’t know. Good question. Hopefully a number of Freepers with medical backgrounds weigh in tomorrow.
They are libs. The only good journalists are our guys. The conservatives. AKA. Normal people.
Wonderful. It can join the dozens of other “promising” treatments ready to enter months long trial. Followed by red tape licensing.
Before any are approved or demonstrate efficacy the pandemic will have likely ended or be in it’s final wave.
Amazing that despite having a modern healthcare system we are having our ass kicked and depending on century old concepts such as social distancing and antibody plasma transfusions
Probably PSYOPS - announce a promising treatment to get Trump to mention it. Then the Rats and the “journalists” can curse him as well as the treatment for a few “news” cycles.
Well that may be the case, but without it, it’s worthless.
Doesn’t Iran also vaccinate every Iranians with bcg?
The TB vaccine story leads back into Germany, and has triggered a fair amount of debate.
Old DDR (East Germany)....mandated the TB vaccines all the way to the late 70s. The five states that made up the country are presently at the extreme low end on infections in Germany, and no one can clearly explain the low infection rate other than it’s a lower populated area. So some folks are talking about a connection back to the TB vaccine period (it hasn’t been used in 50 years).
It may be that some portion of the vaccine in the bloodstream ended up being passed onto a second/third generation.
iI wouldn’t be surprised but I don’t know
There have been no clinical trials on Covid-19 patients. It’s dangerous. People that have TB are going to be unable to get there medication. The evidence is anecdotal. Orange man likes it.
Oh, sorry. That’s hydroxychloroquine.
Immunity can’t be passed on like that except for some passive immunity the first few months of a newborns life
Amen. I’d take my chances with covid thank you very much
Wikipedia has some background.
Based on that:
in the UK where it was ‘universal’, everyone who went to school here and is currently between the ages 25-81 would have had a BCG shot;
in Italy, there has never been a national rule;
in Spain, depended on the region.
That’s generally what I’ve said...but the fact that infection rates in eastern Germany is a heck-of-a-lot less than western states of the country stands out.
If I split the country into two, then put eastern Germany up against any other western civilization or country....they’d have the lowest count on deaths and infections. It can’t be hygiene habits alone. Other than suggesting isolation habits worked heavily in their favor....the TB vaccine thing is the only other possibility.
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