Potential correlation between BCG vaccine and covid-19 infection rate

Autor: Nihed Yousfi, Ramzi MAHMOUDI, Mohamed Bedoui
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire d'Informatique Gaspard-Monge (LIGM), École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Gustave Eiffel
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Zdroj: HAL
Popis: International audience; Vaccines are designed to train the immune system in a highly targeted way that leaves lasting protection against one particular infection. But this process also causes widespread changes in the immune system. This seems to heighten the response to other infections and scientists hope it may even give our bodies an advantage against coronavirus. In this article, we raise the thesis of a possible correlation between the Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine and the community immunity observed during the first wave of covid-19 contamination. We propose to study the figures associated with the number of contaminated cases as well as the mortality rate in two countries with different vaccination policies, namely Tunisia and Switzerland. This work points, only from a static point of view, to a possible link between the use of the BCG vaccine and a low rate of contamination.
Databáze: OpenAIRE