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Has the key to a coronavirus vaccine been staring us in the face for a century?
- giardini 7y agoThe article opens by stating: "Spain had almost 11,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic while Portugal’s death toll barely exceeds 200." My first thought was "Port wine!" Life should be so easy! The true topic is the BCG vaccine and that "COVID-19 is less severe in countries using the BCG vaccine". Another interesting hypothesis, that "COVID-19 is where Malaria is not" is provided by the complementary nature of the maps of (countries using antimalarials) vs (countries with COVID-19): "Delingpole: Chloroquine/Malaria/Coronavirus – ‘Stunning’ Correlation Claimed": https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/20/delingpole-chloroquine-malaria-coronavirus-stunning-correlation-claimed/ https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/20/delingpole-chl...
- robocat 7y agoIt’s odd watching the news about BCG spread, because the actual paper looks fairly weak to me: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.24.20042937v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.24.20042937v... But I guess lots of medical science is messy... Disclaimer: I’m an armchair scientist with a passing interest in biology.