Why a decades old TB vaccine is getting attention in the fight against COVID-19

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14 April 2020 - In the desperate search for ammunition to fend off the COVID-19 pandemic, a decades old tuberculosis vaccine, given in huge numbers around the world, is gaining newfound attention.

Researchers in Australia and the Netherlands are testing the idea that the vaccine, known as BCG — short for bacille Calmette-Guérin — could have broad power to boost the immune system against the novel coronavirus. 

In the United States, a research group in Boston hopes to test the vaccine in front line health workers for the same purpose.

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