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MMR Vaccine Could Protect Against the Worst Symptoms of COVID-19

posted by martyb on Wednesday August 05 2020, @04:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the operative-word-is-"could" dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

MMR Vaccine Could Protect Against the Worst Symptoms of COVID-19 :

"Administering the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine could serve as a preventive measure to dampen septic inflammation associated with COVID-19 infection

[...] The protection was mediated by long-lived myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) previously reported inhibiting septic inflammation and mortality in several experimental models.

[...] The milder symptoms seen in the 955 sailors on the U.S.S Roosevelt who tested positive for COVID-19 (only one hospitalization) may have been a consequence of the fact that the MMR vaccinations are given to all U.S. Navy recruits. In addition, epidemiological data suggest a correlation between people in geographical locations who routinely receive the MMR vaccine and reduced COVID-19 death rates. COVID-19 has not had a big impact on children, and the researchers hypothesize that one reason children are protected against viral infections that induce sepsis is their more recent and more frequent exposures to live attenuated vaccines that can also induce the trained suppressive MDSCs that limit inflammation and sepsis."

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  • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Wednesday August 05 2020, @08:15PM (2 children)

    by krishnoid (1156) on Wednesday August 05 2020, @08:15PM (#1031922)

    There is a LOT of political pressure to get a vaccine out in October (whether it works or not)

    I'm having trouble understanding this high-level description of the political/medical/temporal correlation of vaccine availability. Can you describe this in a way that our poorly-alpha-tested-text-synthesizer-in-chief might?

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @08:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @08:22PM (#1031928)

    Virus fixed before election so Trump can say win.

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @09:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @09:20PM (#1031961)

    ...our poorly-alpha-tested-text-synthesizer-in-chief...

    You know, much like the Covfefe-19 virus, he might one day magically disappear with or without a vaccine, and many people think that when that happens no one will be willing to pay the drug companies - and they make the best drugs - beautiful drugs - for the vaccines. Look, nobody has done as much as he has for the ones dying from Covfefe-19 - ever - not the Chinese - not the Italians - and what did Iran do? But the job he did was amazing - but the lame-stream media will never report it. Maybe somebody should investigate that.