Department of Cardiology I - Coronary and Peripheral Vascular Disease, Heart Failure, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany.
Institutes of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia.
Med. 2021 Apr 9;2(4):378-383. doi: 10.1016/j.medj.2021.02.004. Epub 2021 Feb 24.
Age is a key risk factor associated with the severity of symptoms caused by SARS-CoV-2, and there is an urgent need to reduce COVID-19 morbidity and mortality in elderly individuals. We discuss evidence suggesting that trained immunity elicited by BCG vaccination may improve immune responses and can serve as a strategy to combat COVID-19 in this population.
年龄是与 SARS-CoV-2 引起的症状严重程度相关的关键风险因素,迫切需要降低老年人群 COVID-19 的发病率和死亡率。我们讨论了一些证据,表明 BCG 疫苗接种引起的训练免疫可能改善免疫反应,并可作为该人群对抗 COVID-19 的一种策略。