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. 2021 Mar;76(3):942-945.
doi: 10.1111/all.14443. Epub 2020 Jul 9.

Could anti-tubercular vaccination protect against COVID-19 infection?

Vincenzo Patella  1   2 , Giovanni Florio  1 , Raffaele Brancaccio  1 , Gabriele Delfino  1
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Could anti-tubercular vaccination protect against COVID-19 infection?

Vincenzo Patella et al. Allergy. 2021 Mar.
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The authors have no conflict of interests to declare related to this work, nor financial associations that could have influenced the outcome of the findings here detailed.

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FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
Map displaying BCG vaccination policy by country. A, Countries with universal BCG vaccination program; (B) countries that used to recommend BCG vaccination for everyone, but currently are not recommending it; and (C) countries that never had universal BCG vaccination programs (modified figure from by Zwerling A, et al 2011 4 )
FIGURE 2
FIGURE 2
Differences in numbers of COVID‐19 cases and deaths per million detected in Portugal versus Spain (data: Wikipedia.org), from March 11 to April 27, 2020. Citizens of Portugal (figure on the left) seem to be less susceptible to coronavirus (COVID‐19) infections, at least in the severe form, while Spanish citizens (figure on the right) would have a high mortality rate from COVID‐19 infections, as protective vaccination against BCG is mandatory in Portugal while in Spain it is not. Sources: Portugal Directorate‐General of Health (press conferences/website) for Portugal, and Sources: ISCIII regular updates from the Ministry of Health, for Spain
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FIGURE 3
When regulatory and disclosure screens are filled in, the app asks the questions to get, in unnamed, the data of BCG vaccination in doctor population
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