Interesting. Does a TB vaccine provide some immunity?

Apr 8, 2020, 9:37 PM

Might be onto something here. Bigly.

https://www.euronews.com/2020/04/06/has-the-key-to-a-coronoavirus-vaccine-been-staring-us-in-the-face-for-a-century?utm_source=Global+Health+NOW+Main+List&utm_campaign=ded844b2d9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_07_01_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d0d062dbd-ded844b2d9-2890801

https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2020-04/could-tb-vaccine-help

Could the TB Vaccine Help?

In the global arsenal for nearly a century, the vaccine against tuberculosis could provide some protection against COVID-19, E

Found this website with a global map showing tb vaccine countries. The rona seems to be running rampant in countries with no TB vaccine or very few requirements, and running less rampant in countries where it's required.

http://www.bcgatlas.org/

A Global Database of BCG Policies and Practices

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economies, generally don't require the vaccine, or have stopped requiring it long ago.

One issue is under reporting, and some of these poorer countries that require the vaccine may not be reporting cases sufficiently. But over time it's appearing to be a clear trend the TB vaccine countries don't have this impacting them nearly as bad as it is in countries that never used the vaccine, like us/Italy/Spain/England/France/etc. Then you have Portugal with the least deaths per population and it's right beside Spain. Then in South America you have Ecuador with the worst outbreak per population, and it's the only state in South America that doesn't require the vaccine. Then you have Germany with many cases, but still lower than it should be, and that's because half of Germany, the former East Germany, go the vaccine, while West Germany didn't. Then you have India with a massive population reporting much less cases and deaths than the US.

The map really paints a decent picture that the vaccine appears to help a lot.

Interesting. Does a TB vaccine provide some immunity?

Looks promising

Explains a lot of discrepancies.

Tozzie Bozborne?***

Yeah there have been a few studies in this in the

Doesn't the TB vaccine need to be administered yearly?

Could it be that countries where TB vaccines are common

Re: Could it be that countries where TB vaccines are common

I guess that actually makes sense and also why we

If you look at the map, the most advanced countries, and

Is that the vaccine us boomers got and left the scar?

I heard it leaves a scar, but smallpox also left a scar too

All my kids have gotten it...

Re: Is that the vaccine us boomers got and left the scar?

We did a sugar cube for polio iirc

Sister of Papa G says the shot was for polio then we got a

I think that's what I had as well.***

Smallpox vaccine left a scar.

Would make sense to explain why kids aren't as affected

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