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Bcg Jabs Mean You Are Six Times Less Likely To Get Coronavirus, Study Finds
//The BCG vaccine gives immunity to tuberculosis, but mass vaccination was dropped in the UK in 2005 when rates of the lung infection dropped.
Yet US-based experts now think the vaccine could improve immune systems and protect people from infection.
New research, which is yet to be peer reviewed, suggests that countries with widespread BCG vaccination programmes have much lower rates of the coronavirus than nations without.//
https:/ /www.te legraph .co.uk/ news/20 20/04/0 8/bcg-j abs-mea n-six-t imes-le ss-like ly-get- coronav irus-st udy-fin ds/
A light on the horizon?
Yet US-based experts now think the vaccine could improve immune systems and protect people from infection.
New research, which is yet to be peer reviewed, suggests that countries with widespread BCG vaccination programmes have much lower rates of the coronavirus than nations without.//
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A light on the horizon?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I remember it well. A little test first that consisted of a little circle of pin pricks on your inner arm just above the wrist. Then an injection in the upper arm after the reaction to the test was analysed. Left you with a blister that went a nasty colour and an arm that ached for days. We .....as you do.....went around for a couple of weeks punching each other on the arm. I think that we would have been locked up if we were in school now.
I never had that but most other kids did, I was confused at the time but they said I didn't need it but I was too young to really comprehend the reason. I remember the circle scar the other kids had I didn't have that. Any experts on here tell me why? I have the polio thing on the sugar lump, I think that had other vaccines on it too.
There could be a correlation but of course there may not be any cause and effect- it could be for all sorts of other reasons such as relative poverty levels or hygiene standards in some countries.
But if we only stopped in 2005 in UK then surely almost all those suffering from it are aged over 60 rather than under 15 and therefore had the vaccination? Or does it wear off- I don't know.
Is jim around? Or PP?
But if we only stopped in 2005 in UK then surely almost all those suffering from it are aged over 60 rather than under 15 and therefore had the vaccination? Or does it wear off- I don't know.
Is jim around? Or PP?
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