Cross-Protection Induced by Encephalitis Vaccines against COVID-19 Might be a Reason for Relatively Lower Mortality Rate in Some Countries

COronaVIrus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an on-going pandemic attributed to a novel virus named SARS‐CoV‐2. Comparing the statistics of incidence and death rates between nations reveals that there is discrepancy amongst countries in these regards, even between countries that share borders. We herein p...

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Autores principales: Katoh, Shojiro, Obayashi, Toshihiko, Ganesh, Jegatheesan Saravana, Iwasaki, Masaru, Preethy, Senthilkumar, Abraham, Samuel JK
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2020
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Letter to Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7212070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32440665
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author Katoh, Shojiro
Obayashi, Toshihiko
Ganesh, Jegatheesan Saravana
Iwasaki, Masaru
Preethy, Senthilkumar
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description COronaVIrus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an on-going pandemic attributed to a novel virus named SARS‐CoV‐2. Comparing the statistics of incidence and death rates between nations reveals that there is discrepancy amongst countries in these regards, even between countries that share borders. We herein present information from the literature indicating how cross-protection against COVID-19 conferred by the encephalitis vaccine could be the reason for lower fatality rate in the countries where immunization against encephalitis is widespread or included in national programs. This may pave the way for arriving at efficient prevention strategies as well as vaccine development.
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spelling pubmed-72120702020-05-21 Cross-Protection Induced by Encephalitis Vaccines against COVID-19 Might be a Reason for Relatively Lower Mortality Rate in Some Countries Katoh, Shojiro Obayashi, Toshihiko Ganesh, Jegatheesan Saravana Iwasaki, Masaru Preethy, Senthilkumar Abraham, Samuel JK Arch Acad Emerg Med Letter to Editor COronaVIrus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an on-going pandemic attributed to a novel virus named SARS‐CoV‐2. Comparing the statistics of incidence and death rates between nations reveals that there is discrepancy amongst countries in these regards, even between countries that share borders. We herein present information from the literature indicating how cross-protection against COVID-19 conferred by the encephalitis vaccine could be the reason for lower fatality rate in the countries where immunization against encephalitis is widespread or included in national programs. This may pave the way for arriving at efficient prevention strategies as well as vaccine development. Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2020-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7212070/ /pubmed/32440665 Text en This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Letter to Editor
Katoh, Shojiro
Obayashi, Toshihiko
Ganesh, Jegatheesan Saravana
Iwasaki, Masaru
Preethy, Senthilkumar
Abraham, Samuel JK
Cross-Protection Induced by Encephalitis Vaccines against COVID-19 Might be a Reason for Relatively Lower Mortality Rate in Some Countries
title Cross-Protection Induced by Encephalitis Vaccines against COVID-19 Might be a Reason for Relatively Lower Mortality Rate in Some Countries
title_full Cross-Protection Induced by Encephalitis Vaccines against COVID-19 Might be a Reason for Relatively Lower Mortality Rate in Some Countries
title_fullStr Cross-Protection Induced by Encephalitis Vaccines against COVID-19 Might be a Reason for Relatively Lower Mortality Rate in Some Countries
title_full_unstemmed Cross-Protection Induced by Encephalitis Vaccines against COVID-19 Might be a Reason for Relatively Lower Mortality Rate in Some Countries
title_short Cross-Protection Induced by Encephalitis Vaccines against COVID-19 Might be a Reason for Relatively Lower Mortality Rate in Some Countries
title_sort cross-protection induced by encephalitis vaccines against covid-19 might be a reason for relatively lower mortality rate in some countries
topic Letter to Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7212070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32440665
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