Does the vaccines we have taken against the Coronervirus help?

Can tuberculosis vaccine- BCG protecting medical personnel from COVID-19?

“We have known for decades that BCG vaccine has non-special beneficial effects, which means it protects against diseases other than tuberculosis for which it was produced”, said Kami Lot, head of the Research Department at the Passeur Institute in Lille, for AFP.

Inoculated children with BCG are less likely to suffer from other respiratory diseases, and this vaccine can also protect from asthma and autoimmune diseases such as diabetes 1.

It has been suggested that a tuberculosis vaccine can have a similar effect on coronarys, either by reducing the risk of infection or by reducing the severity of symptoms.

The medical staff should use this approach more “, says Cami Lot, who concludes the clinical test protocol in France, because they are the most dangerous “to be sick” and therefore it is important to protect themselves.

But researchers are careful and still cannot confirm with certainty that the BCG protects from coronary.

This is exactly the reason to participate in this research”, points out Mihai Netea, professor of experimental medicine at Radboud University Medical Institute in the Netherlands, which reported two weeks ago for the launch of a clinical test in co-operation with the University of Utrecht, which includes 1,000 health care professionals. 500 will get the vaccine and 500 will get a sedative.

If there are fewer people in the group taking the BCG vaccine, which because of the disease can't work, then this will be a good result”, adds the expert known for “

This last term means that our acquired immune system, which develops antibodies, is not the only one who remembers. Our inborn immune system can prepare for a more successful fight against threats, thanks to a vaccine like BCG and the rubella vaccine.

In addition to viral infection, COVID-19 also has a serious form of excessive immune response with the uncontrolled production of antiinflammatory proteins, cytokins.

With BCG vaccinated, this inflammatory immune response can better be controlled”, says Loren Legro, an expert at France's National Institute for Health and Medical Research.

“Vaxina acts as a <x1-time military peacetime exercise” to successfully replace a wartime enemy””, Legro claims.