Already, nearly 1,500 Dutch health care workers have rolled up their sleeves for a study that Netea's team is leading. It uses a TB vaccine named BCG, which is made of a live but weakened bacterial cousin of the TB germ.
In Australia, researchers hope to enroll 4,000 hospital workers to test BCG, too, and 700 already have received either the TB vaccine or a dummy shot. Similar research is being planned in other countries, including the U.S.
Possibly next in line: oral polio vaccine, drops made of live but weakened polio viruses. The Baltimore-based Global Virus Network hopes to begin similar studies with the vaccine and is in talks with health authorities
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Already, nearly 1,500 Dutch health care workers have rolled up their sleeves for a study that Netea's team is leading. It uses a TB vaccine named BCG, which is made of a live but weakened bacterial cousin of the TB germ.
In Australia, researchers hope to enroll 4,000 hospital workers to test BCG, too, and 700 already have received either the TB vaccine or a dummy shot. Similar research is being planned in other countries, including the U.S.
Possibly next in line: oral polio vaccine, drops made of live but weakened polio viruses. The Baltimore-based Global Virus Network hopes to begin similar studies with the vaccine and is in talks with health authorities
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/could-old-vaccines-other-germs-protect-against-covid-19-n1183011?icid=related