COVID-19 Severity and Neonatal BCG Vaccination among Young Population in Taiwan.

ABSTRACT: Data have not been reported to explore the relation between COVID-19 severity and BCG vaccination status at the individual patient level. Taiwan has a nationwide neonatal BCG vaccination program that was launched in 1965. The Taiwan Centers for Disease Control established a web-based National Immunization Information System (NISS) in 2003 and included all citizens' BCG vaccination records in NISS for those born after 1985. We identified COVID-19 Taiwanese patients born after 1985 between 21 January and 19 March 2021. Study participants were further classified into ages 4-24 years (birth year 1996-2016) and 25-33 years (birth year 1986-1995). We described their clinical syndrome defined by the World Health Organization and examined the relation between the COVID-19 severity and BCG vaccinat

SUBMITTER: Su WJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8074147 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature