{"id":5943,"date":"2020-04-15T15:22:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T22:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5943"},"modified":"2021-03-05T15:23:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T23:23:12","slug":"covid-19-a-model-correlating-bcg-vaccination-to-protection-from-mortality-implicates-trained-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/15\/covid-19-a-model-correlating-bcg-vaccination-to-protection-from-mortality-implicates-trained-immunity\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: A model correlating BCG vaccination to protection from mortality implicates trained immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Green et al determine that BCG vaccination is correlated with protection from death from COVID-19. This correlation to new and existing studies and data suggest causal protective mechanisms that have been previously and rigorously demonstrated to be mediated by BCG vaccination. These mechanisms converge on \u201ctrained immunity,\u201d suggesting that this may be an important mechanism in individuals demonstrating protection from the lethal effects of COVID-19.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Green et al. (April 15, 2020). COVID-19: A model correlating BCG vaccination to protection from mortality implicates trained immunity. Pre-print downloaded Apr 15 from <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.04.10.20060905v1.full.pdf<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green et al determine that BCG vaccination is correlated with protection from death from COVID-19. This correlation to new and existing studies and data suggest causal protective mechanisms that have been previously and rigorously demonstrated to be mediated by BCG vaccination. These mechanisms converge on \u201ctrained immunity,\u201d suggesting that this may be an important mechanism&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/15\/covid-19-a-model-correlating-bcg-vaccination-to-protection-from-mortality-implicates-trained-immunity\/\">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-5943","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\/5943","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=5943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5944,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943\/revisions\/5944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5943"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}