Association between coronavirus disease morbidity and mortality rates and BCG vaccination policies in OECD countries. Authors' reply

Yuki Senoo; Yousuke Suzuki; Kenji Tsuda; Tetsuya Tanimoto; Kenzo Takahashi

doi:10.1177/17571774211066753

Association between coronavirus disease morbidity and mortality rates and BCG vaccination policies in OECD countries. Authors' reply

J Infect Prev. 2022 May;23(3):118-119. doi: 10.1177/17571774211066753. Epub 2022 Feb 22.

Authors

Yuki Senoo¹, Yousuke Suzuki², Kenji Tsuda³, Tetsuya Tanimoto¹, Kenzo Takahashi⁴

Affiliations

¹ Medical Governance Research Institute, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
² Tone Chuo Byoin, Numata, Japan.
³ Ken works, Kanagawa, Japan.
⁴ Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Teikyo University School of Medicine Graduate School of Medicine, Itabashi-ku, Japan.

Abstract

We appreciate the reviewer's comment to our article on the correlation between the national BCG vaccination policy and coronavirus disease 2019 among Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries as of April 20, 2020. In this letter, we further updated the data up to November 1, 2020, and found that the updated results also arrive at the similar conclusion as the accepted article.

Keywords: COVID-19; OECD; bacillus Calmette–Guerin vaccine; coronavirus infections; epidemiology; trained immunity.

Publication types

Review