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BCG shots can give relief to breathless Covid patients
Gora saheb is saying it, so it’s a news and great discovery..
Nobody cared when Our duo @dasgobardhan @ARanganathan72 said the sand 6 months back, thousands of lives cud hv been saved timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/bcg-shot…
Gora saheb is saying it, so it’s a news and great discovery..
Nobody cared when Our duo @dasgobardhan @ARanganathan72 said the sand 6 months back, thousands of lives cud hv been saved timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/bcg-shot…
As always, it’s the UP CM @myogiadityanath ahead of everyone in taking initiative
#BCGVaccine to be given to all Ambulance workers in UP after study found it effective in preventing #COVID19
Doctors, Nurses & elderly could be next, Kids anyways get it
dnaindia.com/india/report-c…
#BCGVaccine to be given to all Ambulance workers in UP after study found it effective in preventing #COVID19
Doctors, Nurses & elderly could be next, Kids anyways get it
dnaindia.com/india/report-c…
Prof. Gobardhan Das (@dasgobardhan) and Prof. Anand Ranganathan (@ARanganathan72) have also conducted research to further enhance #BCG vaccine efficacy..
Will Govt of India again wait for western endorsement for this too? Or be serious @drharshvardhan ?
journosdiary.com/2019/09/21/cur…
Will Govt of India again wait for western endorsement for this too? Or be serious @drharshvardhan ?
journosdiary.com/2019/09/21/cur…
There is no evidence that the Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) #vaccine protects people against #infection with #SARSCoV2 #coronavirus causing #COVID19. But, 2 #clinicaltrials addressing this question are underway. WHO does not recommend BCG vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19. 
There is EXPERIMENTAL evidence from animal & human studies that #BCG #vaccine has non-specific effects on the immune system. These effects have not been well characterized; clinical relevance is unknown. WHO updated its evidence review of major scientific databases on this topic
The review yielded 3 pre-prints (before peer-review), where authors compared incidence of #COVID19 cases in countries where the #BCGvaccine is used vs. countries where it is not used & observed countries that routinely used BCG in neonates had less #COVID19 cases to date.
A story about a pandemic.
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. In the summer of 2005, these immortal words of Neil Armstrong was emailed by Dr Terrence Tumpey to his colleagues.
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. In the summer of 2005, these immortal words of Neil Armstrong was emailed by Dr Terrence Tumpey to his colleagues.
Working alone in a high security laboratory with biometric fingerprint, iris scan for his eyes alone, he had been the first man to resurrect an old demon – the 1918 Spanish Flu virus. #SpanishFlu
The Spanish Flu (or 1918 H1N1 flu to be politically/scientifically correct) killed 50 million people in the world. About 18 million in India alone. Unlike #COVID19 the virus killed maximally in 15-34 years age range.
#Thread on brief history of BCG vaccination in India and why researchers are touting it as an intervention that could possibly prevent a huge death toll in India and other countries with universal BCG vaccination program.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis which causes TB been with us for over 70,000 years and adds approx 10 million cases/yr. It finds its mention in biblical books and has bn verified in Egyptian mummies. 1st documents describing TB, date back to 3300 and 2300 yrs in India and in China.
The disease has been known by various names through history like "Pthisis","King's Evil","Robber of youth", "Consumption","White Plague" ,"Captain of all these men of Death" and has killed millions. Johann Lukas Schönlein coined the term "tuberculosis"
