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August 21, 2020

Functional SARS-CoV-2-Specific Immune Memory Persists after Mild COVID-19

• [pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Immunologic examinations of 15 people who had recovered from mildly symptomatic, PCR-confirmed COVID-19 found evidence of expanded SARS-CoV-2-specific immune mediators (IgG antibodies and neutralizing plasma, virus-specific memory B and T cells). Responses were persistent, and in some cases increased over three months following symptom onset. They also found that SARS-CoV-2-specific memory…

August 20, 2020

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

• 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….


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