{"id":8237,"date":"2020-07-15T11:24:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T18:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8237"},"modified":"2021-04-01T11:24:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T18:24:58","slug":"significantly-improved-covid-19-outcomes-in-countries-with-higher-bcg-vaccination-coverage-a-multivariable-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/15\/significantly-improved-covid-19-outcomes-in-countries-with-higher-bcg-vaccination-coverage-a-multivariable-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Significantly Improved COVID-19 Outcomes in Countries with Higher BCG Vaccination Coverage:\u00a0A Multivariable\u00a0Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">An ecological study conducted by\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Klinger et al.\u00a0find\u00a0a strong negative correlation between the years of BCG administration and the deaths per million\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">from\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">based on<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0data from 55 countries. Countries with BCG immunization policies over the past 15 years have a significantly lower rate of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">COVID-19 deaths\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">than countries with no BCG in last 15 years (p=0.0004).<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">[EDITORIAL NOTE: Results from ecological studies should be interpreted with caution due to unmeasured confounding between countries and may not reflect individual-level effects]<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Klinger et al. (July 11, 2020). Significantly Improved COVID-19 Outcomes in Countries with Higher BCG Vaccination Coverage:\u00a0A Multivariable\u00a0Analysis. Vaccines.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/vaccines8030378\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/vaccines8030378<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ecological study conducted by\u00a0Klinger et al.\u00a0find\u00a0a strong negative correlation between the years of BCG administration and the deaths per million\u00a0from\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0based on\u00a0data from 55 countries. Countries with BCG immunization policies over the past 15 years have a significantly lower rate of\u00a0COVID-19 deaths\u00a0than countries with no BCG in last 15 years (p=0.0004).\u00a0[EDITORIAL NOTE: Results from ecological&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/15\/significantly-improved-covid-19-outcomes-in-countries-with-higher-bcg-vaccination-coverage-a-multivariable-analysis\/\">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":[19],"class_list":["post-8237","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\/8237","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=8237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8238,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8237\/revisions\/8238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8237"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}