Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Has the key to a coronavirus vaccine been staring us in the face for a century?



I have a big scar on my left shoulder that has been there all my life, which came from a BCG injection.


Why has Spain had almost 11,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic while Portugal’s death toll barely exceeds 200?

Such a disparity in numbers within the Iberian peninsula is mysterious, but it could in part be explained by the two countries’ different use of a vaccine. Not a vaccine against COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus – no such vaccine exists yet, rather it is the decades-old tuberculosis vaccine that seems to offer an explanation.

A new scientific study has discovered a possible correlation between countries where it is mandatory to be vaccinated against tuberculosis, also called “Bacillus Calmette-Guerin” (BCG), and the impact of the new coronavirus.

Euronews

Has the key to a coronavirus vaccine been staring us in the face for a century?

9 comments:

Matt Franko said...

Big pharma no likey....

Critical Tinkerer said...

Not to burst your bubble but BCG vaccine in USA is muchweaker then in Europe. When i moved to the states from Croatia (btw has the best measure against virus and yet weak show) my Tbc antibodies were too strong and indicated tbc viruses so we had been given 40 day treatment to kill some of the antibodies but nobody took it becauase it cauased stomack ache.
European BCG vaccine is way stronger then American one.

Matt Franko said...

This from just last month:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-202677/Tuberculosis-makes-comeback.html

Matt Franko said...

More

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/03/21/174944671/tuberculosis-cases-in-the-u-s-keep-sliding

"Now in the U.S., TB is most prevalent among Asians, who have a 25-times higher rate of catching it than whites. Over the past year, TB has declined the fastest for Hispanics and blacks, the report finds. But still 60 percent of cases are seen in foreign-born people.

Nearly half of all TB cases occur in just four states: California, Texas, New York and Florida. "


Id like to see the nationality breakdown of the corona dead in the US after this is over...

Matt Franko said...

"European BCG vaccine is way stronger then American one."

Probably a good idea you guys are a lot closer to the turd world....

hoonose said...

I was BCG'd in Med school back in the '70's, and didn't die from my recent covid 19 infection. So there's one positive anecdotal case!

S400 said...

Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by bacteria, not virus.

hoonose said...

Right, but BCG somehow boosts general immunity to all sorts of pathogens, some viruses included.

Greg said...

Gee Matt, I wonder why almost half the cases come from those four states....... almost half the population is in those four states.....funny how that works