COVID-19: frontline virus fighters to trial TB vaccine

The Australian

27 March 2020 - Thousands of Australian doctors, nurses and health workers will be given a tuberculosis vaccine in a trial that, if successful, could see it made widely available within three months to slow the spread of COVID-19.

The BCG vaccine, given annually to 130 million children, has been found to boost immunity to viral respiratory tract infections, a key symptom of the coronavirus, making it a potential weapon to slow the spread of the virus.

For the next six months, the vaccine will be administered to 4,000 health workers in Australia and thousands more in The Netherlands, Germany and Britain to determine its effect on COVID-19.

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