Study: Old Vaccines May Stop The Coronavirus

By Newsmax
Posted on 07/31/20 | News Source: MATZAV

While the world waits for a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine to be developed, some scientists believe that tried-and-true vaccines may offer some protection against the virus.

Results from a recent study show that individuals who received SARS-CoV-2 tests, and had been immunized for other diseases, had much lower rates of infection than people who had not been inoculated for diseases such as measles-mumps-rubella and polio, or had not received flu vaccines. In particular, Blacks who had taken the pneumococcal vaccine had significantly lower rates of COVID-19 infection.

This finding is significant in light of statistics from the The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that said members of racial and ethnic minority groups are at increased risk of getting COVID-19 or experiencing severe illness. The CDC offered new data to show that in America, the death rates among Blacks and Hispanics are much higher than for white people, in all age categories.

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