{"id":458,"date":"2020-08-24T10:08:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T17:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=458"},"modified":"2020-08-25T10:11:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T17:11:55","slug":"bcg-vaccination-in-infancy-does-not-protect-against-covid-19-evidence-from-a-natural-experiment-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/24\/bcg-vaccination-in-infancy-does-not-protect-against-covid-19-evidence-from-a-natural-experiment-in-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"BCG Vaccination in Infancy Does Not Protect against COVID-19. Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>By analyzing data from birth cohorts born just before and just after a 1975 policy change that discontinued BCG vaccine in Sweden, de Chaisemartin et al. conclude that the vaccine does not have a protective effect against COVID-19. The authors assessed COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations among 1,026,304 people with the BCG vaccine and 1,018,544 people without the vaccine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>de Chaisemartin and de Chaisemartin. (Aug 23, 2020). BCG Vaccination in Infancy Does Not Protect against COVID-19. Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Sweden. Clinical Infectious Diseases. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1223\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1223<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By analyzing data from birth cohorts born just before and just after a 1975 policy change that discontinued BCG vaccine in Sweden, de Chaisemartin et al. conclude that the vaccine does not have a protective effect against COVID-19. The authors assessed COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations among 1,026,304 people with the BCG vaccine and 1,018,544 people&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/24\/bcg-vaccination-in-infancy-does-not-protect-against-covid-19-evidence-from-a-natural-experiment-in-sweden\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-treatment","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}