{"id":6230,"date":"2020-04-23T16:08:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T23:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6230"},"modified":"2021-03-09T16:08:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T00:08:58","slug":"is-there-evidence-that-bcg-vaccination-has-non-specific-protective-effects-for-covid-19-infections-or-is-it-an-illusion-created-by-lack-of-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/23\/is-there-evidence-that-bcg-vaccination-has-non-specific-protective-effects-for-covid-19-infections-or-is-it-an-illusion-created-by-lack-of-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there evidence that BCG vaccination has non-specific protective effects for COVID 19 infections or is it an illusion created by lack of testing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shivendu et al analyze data from on COVID-19 and BCG vaccination from 98 countries, finding that COVID-19 cases deaths across countries share a relationship with national BCG vaccination, but that this relationship is nullified when controlling for testing.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This study concludes that there is no statistical evidence to support the assertion that inclusion of BCG vaccination in NIP has an impact on COVID-19 incidence or mortality.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shivendu et al. (Apr 18, 2020). Is there evidence that BCG vaccination has non-specific protective effects for COVID 19 infections or is it an illusion created by lack of testing? Pre-print downloaded Apr 23 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.18.20071142\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.18.20071142<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shivendu et al analyze data from on COVID-19 and BCG vaccination from 98 countries, finding that COVID-19 cases deaths across countries share a relationship with national BCG vaccination, but that this relationship is nullified when controlling for testing.\u00a0 This study concludes that there is no statistical evidence to support the assertion that inclusion of BCG&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/23\/is-there-evidence-that-bcg-vaccination-has-non-specific-protective-effects-for-covid-19-infections-or-is-it-an-illusion-created-by-lack-of-testing\/\">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":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-6230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6230","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=6230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6231,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6230\/revisions\/6231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6230"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}