Vaccination With Oral Polio Vaccine Reduces COVID-19 Incidence.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Effective response to emerging pandemic threats is complicated by the need to develop specific vaccines and other medical products. The availability of broadly specific countermeasures that could be deployed early in the pandemic could significantly alter its course and save countless lives. Live attenuated vaccines (LAVs) were shown to induce non-specific protection against a broad spectrum of off-target pathogens by stimulating innate immune responses. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of immunization with bivalent Oral Poliovirus Vaccine (bOPV) on the incidence of COVID-19 and other acute respiratory infections (ARIs).

Methods and findings

A randomized parallel-group comparative study was conducted in Kirov Medical University. 1115 healthy vo

SUBMITTER: Yagovkina NV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9196174 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature