Aussie team to trial TB vaccine against COVID-19

Researchers from the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne will test the BCG vaccine in 4000 hospital workers
Could the TB vaccine boost COVID-19 immune response?

New Australian research will explore whether the tuberculosis BCG vaccine could help protect doctors from COVID-19 and future pandemic viruses.

Researchers from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), in Melbourne, are about to start a randomised controlled trial (BRACE) involving 4000 hospital-based healthcare workers.