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. 2020 Jul 31;38(35):5564-5568.
doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.06.083. Epub 2020 Jul 3.

Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine, antimalarial, age and gender relation to COVID-19 spread and mortality

Ahmed Osama El-Gendy  1 , Haitham Saeed  2 , Ahmed M A Ali  3 , Hossam M Zawbaa  4 , Dina Gomaa  5 , Hadeer S Harb  2 , Yasmin M Madney  2 , Hasnaa Osama  2 , Mona A Abdelrahman  2 , Mohamed E A Abdelrahim  6
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Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine, antimalarial, age and gender relation to COVID-19 spread and mortality

Ahmed Osama El-Gendy et al. Vaccine. .

Abstract

COVID-19 is affecting different countries all over the world with great variation in infection rate and death ratio. Some reports suggested a relation between the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine and the malaria treatment to the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Some reports related infant's lower susceptibility to the COVID-19. Some other reports a higher risk in males compared to females in such COVID-19 pandemic. Also, some other reports claimed the possible use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as prophylactic in such a pandemic. The present commentary is to discuss the possible relation between those factors and SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Keywords: Age; Antimalarial; BCG; COVID 19; Gender.

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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A. Map displaying BCG-vaccination policy by country (adopted from [16]); B. Number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and death cases in certain countries; C. The-estimate of world malaria burden (adopted from [57]); D Number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and death cases for countries receiving antimalarial treatment.
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