{"id":5737,"date":"2020-04-08T16:44:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T23:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5737"},"modified":"2021-03-03T16:46:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T00:46:01","slug":"connecting-bcg-vaccination-and-covid-19-additional-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/08\/connecting-bcg-vaccination-and-covid-19-additional-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting BCG Vaccination and COVID-19: Additional Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reasons for wide variation in severity of COVID-19 across affected countries around the world remain unknown. Two recent studies suggest a link between BCG vaccination policy and morbidity and mortality due to COVID-19. Dayal and Gupta compared the case fatality rates of COVID-19 between countries with high disease burden and those with BCG revaccination policies.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They report a significant difference in the CFR between the two groups of countries. They conclude that universal BCG vaccination may have protective effect on the course of COVID-19, probably preventing progression to severe disease and death.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dayal and Gupta. (April 08, 2020). Connecting BCG Vaccination and COVID-19: Additional Data. Pre-print downloaded Apr 8 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.07.20053272\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.07.20053272<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reasons for wide variation in severity of COVID-19 across affected countries around the world remain unknown. Two recent studies suggest a link between BCG vaccination policy and morbidity and mortality due to COVID-19. Dayal and Gupta compared the case fatality rates of COVID-19 between countries with high disease burden and those with BCG revaccination policies.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/08\/connecting-bcg-vaccination-and-covid-19-additional-data\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-5737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5738,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737\/revisions\/5738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5737"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}