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Re:Preliminary evidence that MMR vaccine might provide prote... by hannob on Saturday May 02, 2020 @12:38PM (#23052892)
If I read this right this isn't based on any data, just a hypothesis because there is some similarity between the viruses. That's... a very low level of evidence. It's a vague hypothesis, and one that is probably hard to test.

Other than that: Absolutely get an MMR vaccine if you don't have one. I wouldn't cound on it helping against Covid-19, but it helps against the Measles, which is a good enough reason to get it anyway.

Re:Preliminary evidence that MMR vaccine might provide prote... by _Microft on Saturday May 02, 2020 @12:47PM (#23052980)
It's not just speculation on that level. Here is the conclusion from the linked paper verbatim:

We identified at a population level that both older populations and males are both more likely to die from COVID-19, and less likely to be seropositive for rubella-specific immunity, based on historical vaccination programmes of all three countries considered in this report. Finally, the hypothesis that this macro domain could be recognised by antibodies raised against rubella was supported by data that demonstrated that patients who have SARS-CoV2 infection had raised levels of rubella IgG to a level in keeping with secondary rubella infection. Taken together, we suggest that MMR will not prevent COVID-19 infection but could potentially reduce poor outcome. To conclude whether MMR vaccination can improve the outcomes from Covid-19 infection, a study using individual based data to compare MMR immunity status in the affected population is warranted.

Source: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.10.20053207v...

Re:Preliminary evidence that MMR vaccine might provide prote... by WrtCdEvrydy on Saturday May 02, 2020 @01:04PM (#23053131)
Maybe the reason there's been such a low rate of death is that the MMR vaccine had some effect on the Coronavirus? I'm not a scientist, I write Javascript.
Re:Preliminary evidence that MMR vaccine might provide prote... by mrfusion on Saturday May 02, 2020 @01:19PM (#23053269)
Do less Italians get the mmr? That would be interesting to look at the hard hit places.
Re:Preliminary evidence that MMR vaccine might provide prote... by mseri on Saturday May 02, 2020 @01:26PM (#23053329)
Yes, children do
Re:Preliminary evidence that MMR vaccine might provide prote... by dnautics on Saturday May 02, 2020 @01:45PM (#23053495)
Importantly, what about children 50+ years ago? In Italy
Re:Preliminary evidence that MMR vaccine might provide prote... by ghaff on Saturday May 02, 2020 @01:55PM (#23053569)
Presumably mostly not. The original rubella vaccine was developed in the late sixties and the current vaccine (that's part of MMR) didn't come out until 1979.
Re:Preliminary evidence that MMR vaccine might provide prote... by iso1210 on Saturday May 02, 2020 @01:48PM (#23053522)
In the UK MMR has been a standard vaccination for children born from 1990 onwards -- those born in the 80s (so in their 30s) only got measles+rubella, and those in the 70's (so in their 40s) only got measles.

No evidence of any difference in deadliness between age ranges in under 50s in UK excess deaths.