Spurious early ecological association suggesting BCG vaccination effectiveness for COVID-19

• Jorge R. Ledesma,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

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• Peter Lurie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington, D.C., United States of America

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• Rachel R. Yorlets,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

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• Garrison Daly,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington, D.C., United States of America

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• Stavroula Chrysanthopoulou,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

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• Mark N. Lurie

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Mark_Lurie@brown.edu

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3153-1715

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