Decades-Old Soviet Studies Hint at #Coronavirus Strategy - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/world/europe/vaccine-repurposing-polio-coronavirus.html
La #vaccination orale contre la #poliomyélite va être testée dans certains pays comme protection contre la #covid-19 en se basant sur les constations anciennes de virologues soviétiques (consistant en une protection élargie conférée par ce vaccin).
Something Dr. [Marina] Voroshilova noticed decades ago has renewed interest in the oral vaccine.
A typical healthy child is host to a dozen or so respiratory viruses that cause little or no illness. But Dr. Voroshilova could not find any of them in children soon after they were immunized against polio.
A huge study in the Soviet Union of 320,000 people, from 1968 to 1975, overseen by Dr. Voroshilova, found reduced mortality from flu in people immunized with other vaccines, including the oral polio vaccine.
She won recognition in the Soviet Union for demonstrating a link between vaccinations and broad protection against viral diseases, likely by stimulating the immune system.