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Comment
. 2020 Aug;25(8):898-899.
doi: 10.1111/resp.13885. Epub 2020 Jun 18.

National policies for paediatric universal BCG vaccination were associated with decreased mortality due to COVID-19

Risa Ebina-Shibuya  1 , Nobuyuki Horita  2 , Ho Namkoong  3 , Takeshi Kaneko  2
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National policies for paediatric universal BCG vaccination were associated with decreased mortality due to COVID-19

Risa Ebina-Shibuya et al. Respirology. 2020 Aug.

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Mortality differences between Currently Recommended Countries (CRC) and Currently Not Recommended Countries (CNRC). Country‐level median values were calculated regardless of population size. Mann–Whitney test was used for two‐group comparison and the Kruskal–Wallis test was used for three‐group comparison. Previously, Previously Recommended Countries; Never, Never Recommended Countries; solid bar, median mortality among CRC and CNRC; broken bar, median mortality among Previously Recommended countries and Never Recommended countries.
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  • Letter from China.
    Guan WJ, Zhong NS. Guan WJ, et al. Respirology. 2020 Jun;25(6):657-658. doi: 10.1111/resp.13817. Epub 2020 Apr 8. Respirology. 2020. PMID: 32270532 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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