August 20, 2020

Factors Determining COVID-19 Pneumonia Severity in a Country with Routine BCG Vaccination

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Vaccines and Immunity

Keywords (Tags): immunity, vaccines

• A retrospective cross-sectional study among 123 adults with COVID-19 in Istanbul, Turkey found that the patients with severe disease were less likely to have had a BCG vaccination than patients with mild disease (69% vs 88%), but after adjustment for factors associated with COVID-19 severity, BCG vaccination was not associated with the disease severity.

Aksu et al. (Aug 19, 2020). Factors Determining COVID-19 Pneumonia Severity in a Country with Routine BCG Vaccination. Clinical and Experimental Immunology. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32813879/