BCG - COVID-19 Scientific Papers

We are gathering a list of scientific papers related to BCG and COVID-19 relationship in the following spreadsheet and everyone is more than welcome to contribute to it - Scientific Papers Spreadsheet.

BCG Strain Related Papers

We are extracting BCG strain information from scientific papers (at the of the spreadsheet are the links to the papers) - BCG Strain spreadsheet

News on Media for BCG

Links to the news are listed bellow.

• Updated on daily basis, Very useful blog with the latest info for BCG vaccination and COVID-19 - part1 and part2 (for comments)

• 1 May 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-vaccine-innate-immunity.html

• 27 April 2020 https://www.iol.co.za/weekend-argus/news/cape-town-trial-begins-next-week-can-bcg-shot-prevent-covid-19-infection-47187565 recent trials in South Africa by TASK. https://www.facebook.com/TASKAppliedScience/

• 27 April 2020 https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-protection-using-tuberculosis-vaccine.html

• 15 April 2020, newsweek.com, "Scientists about to start trail on BCG vaccine"

• 15 April 2020, wired.co.uk, "Does the BCG vaccine work against coronavirus? We just don’t know"

• 14 April 2020, statnews.com, "Why a decades-old TB vaccine is getting attention in the fight against Covid-19"

• 12 April 2020, forbes.com, "BCG Against Coronavirus: Less Hype And More Evidence, Please",

• 10 April 2020, cnn.com, "How a 100-year-old vaccine for tuberculosis could help fight the novel coronavirus"

• 10 April 2020, irishexaminer.com, "BCG could be first approved vaccine for Covid-19"

• 06 April 2020, urotoday.com, "BCG vaccination policies make a ten times difference in COVID-19 incidence, mortality: New study"

• 06 April 2020, irishtimes.com, "Coronavirus: More ‘striking’ evidence BCG vaccine might protect against Covid-19"

• 03 April 2020, nytimes.com , "Can an Old Vaccine Stop the New Coronavirus?" (it might offer a little immune system boost, lessening the length/severity of infection in high risk people like healthcare workers but not actually protect against the disease in the same way that a targeted vaccine would)

• 02 April 2020, foreignpolicy.com, "Nations with Mandatory TB Vaccines Show Fewer Coronavirus Deaths"

• 24 March 2020, foreignpolicy.com, "This Vaccine Could Save Health Care Workers’ Lives Now"

• 23 March 2020, thedailybeast.com, "Researchers to Begin Testing Whether TB Vaccine Can Fight Against Coronavirus"

• 23 March 2020, sciencemag.org, "Can a century-old TB vaccine steel the immune system against the new coronavirus?"