The association of Coronavirus Disease-19 mortality and prior bacille Calmette-Guerin vaccination: a robust ecological analysis using unsupervised machine learning

Abstract Population-level data have suggested that bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination may lessen the severity of Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) prompting clinical trials in this area. Some reports have demonstrated conflicting results. We performed a robust, ecologic analysis comparing COV...

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Main Authors: Nathan A. Brooks, Ankur Puri, Sanya Garg, Swapnika Nag, Jacomo Corbo, Anas El Turabi, Noshir Kaka, Rodney W. Zemmel, Paul K. Hegarty, Ashish M. Kamat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-01-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-80787-z