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. 2020;152(1 & 2):16-20.
doi: 10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_1563_20.

Will bacille Calmette-Guerin immunization arrest the COVID-19 pandemic?

Nasreen Zafar Ehtesham  1 , Jasmine Samal  1 , Faraz Ahmad  1 , Mohd Arish  2 , Farha Naz  1 , Anwar Alam  1 , Usha Agrawal  3 , Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain  4
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Will bacille Calmette-Guerin immunization arrest the COVID-19 pandemic?

Nasreen Zafar Ehtesham et al. Indian J Med Res. 2020.
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Scatter plot showing differences in the number of confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection (A) and cause-specific death rate (B) per 100,000 population between countries having universal BCG vaccination policy (BCG+ countries) and countries that do not have a universal BCG vaccination policy (BCG− countries). The description of the different colour and symbols is as follows: European countries (sky blue square), Asian countries (red circle), Middle East countries (yellow square), African countries (brown diamond), North American countries (purple upright triangle), South American countries (green inverted triangle) and Australia (grey hexagon). The countries represented in the graph are those with >3000 confirmed COVID-19 cases, as of July 9, 2020. The significance of the two data sets was tested using unpaired, non-parametric Student's t test using GraphPad Prism software version 6.7 (San Diego, CA, USA) and is shown on the top of the plot (ns, non-significant; ***P<0.001). Source: www.bcgatlas.org; www.gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com.
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