I’ll throw it out here once again… there’s a vaccine out there that’s readily available, has a 40-yr track record of safety, and shows great promise of protecting against COVID-related disease, hospitalization, and death… while you’re waiting your turn in line to get any one of the specific COVID19 vaccines… or if you’re in the group who have decided not to take the current spate of COVID vaccines… it’s MMR II.
COVID-19 – Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR) Vaccine 5
COVID-19 / MMR Vaccine
While I fully intend to get the COVID vaccine when it becomes available… that could be weeks or months from now… so, in light of the growing bank of evidence that MMR vaccination seems to provide significant protection against severity of COVID disease, I’ve taken a two-shot series of MMR II vaccines. I’m not counting on those to keep me from getting infected… I’m still isolating as much as possible, wearing a mask when appropriate, etc., but I’m less concerned about ending up in the hospital on a ventilator, or dying.
The following article from
March 2020 is among those linked at the
world.org site above; certainly worth a read! :
MMR Vaccine Appears to Confer Strong Protection from COVID-19:Few Deaths from
SARS-CoV-2 in Highly Vaccinated Populations. Gold, Tilley, Baumgartl.
Excerpt from discussion section:
“The variety of epidemiologic associations clearly suggest a plausible indication that the MMR vaccine may confer protection to the COVID-19 virus as well. Right now, it is a national priority to develop a safe and effective vaccine for the COVID-19 virus, and the race is on to do this, with dozens of companies and millions of dollars spent in this effort.
As part of this effort, there should be an immediate investigation of using the already available MMR vaccine in controlled studies to show a protective benefit. Epidemiologic studies suggest this may already be effective as a COVID-19 vaccine, and this could be instituted within months, perhaps saving thousands of lives with an earlier deployment than other vaccines under development.”
Makes one wonder how many thousands of lives might have been preserved if the media and medical establishment here had picked up on this and followed the lead of countries which had very low morbidity/mortality rates, and have routinely practiced MMR vaccination of adult population.