Use of oral polio vaccine and the incidence of COVID-19 in the world.

Farrokh HabibzadehKonstantin ChumakovMohammad M SajadiMahboobeh YadollahieKristen StaffordAshraf SimiShyamasundaran KottililIman Hafizi-RastaniRobert C Gallo

Published in: PloS one (2022)

Countries using OPV have a lower incidence of COVID-19 compared to those using IPV. This might suggest that OPV may either prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection at individual level or slow down the transmission at the community level.

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coronavirus disease
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