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Aussie team to trial TB vaccine against COVID-19

Researchers from the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne will test the BCG vaccine in 4000 hospital workers
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26 March 2020
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Could the TB vaccine boost COVID-19 immune response?

New Australian research will explore whether the tuberculosis BCG vaccine could help protect doctors from COVID-19 and future pandemic viruses.

Researchers from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), in Melbourne, are about to start a randomised controlled trial (BRACE) involving 4000 hospital-based healthcare workers.  

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