How A 100-year-old Vaccine For Tuberculosis Could Help Fight The Novel Coronavirus

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Thu, 04/09/2020 - 3:24pm

As researchers scramble to find new drugs and vaccines for Covid-19, a vaccine that is more than a century old has piqued researchers' interests. The Bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccine -- which was first developed to fight off tuberculosis -- is being studied in clinical trials around the world as a way to fight the novel coronavirus.

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