2020年3月31日火曜日

BCG Vaccine could work against Covid-19.

This is the announcement from reputable Australian Medical Research Institue.
→ Murdoch Children’s Research Institute to trial preventative vaccine for COVID-19 healthcare workers

日本語の記事はこちら。⇒ https://medical.jiji.com/news/30016

Hope everything can work properly.

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Professor Kathryn North AC, Director of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, has announced its infectious disease researchers are preparing to roll-out a multi-center randomised controlled clinical trial of the BCG vaccine against COVID-19.

The trial has been endorsed by the Director-General of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom, who has called for global support and assistance in the fight against COVID-19.

Professor North said, “Australian medical researchers have a reputation for conducting rigorous, innovative trials. This trial will allow the vaccine’s effectiveness against COVID-19 symptoms to be properly tested, and may help save the lives of our heroic frontline healthcare workers.”

Led by Professor Nigel Curtis, a clinician-scientist who leads MCRI’s Infectious Diseases Research Group, the BRACE trial builds on previous studies which showed that BCG reduces the level of virus when people are infected with similar viruses to SARS-CoV-2.

Professor Curtis said, “We hope to see a reduction in the prevalence and severity of COVID-19 symptoms in healthcare workers receiving the BCG vaccination.”

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