Efficacy of BCG vaccination against COVID-19 in health care workers and non-health care workers: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

• Zhuoyang Xia ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  ¶☯ These authors are contributed equally.

  Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

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• Jiahao Meng ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ These authors are contributed equally.

  Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China, Key Laboratory of Aging-related Bone and Joint Diseases Prevention and Treatment, Ministry of Education, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

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• Xuanyu Wang,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

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• Pan Liu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

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• Yumei Wu,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

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• Yilin Xiong,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

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• Baimei He,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

  Affiliations National Clinical Research Center of Geriatric Disorders, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China, Department of Geriatric Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

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• Shuguang Gao

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gaoshuguang0341@csu.edu.cn

  Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China, Key Laboratory of Aging-related Bone and Joint Diseases Prevention and Treatment, Ministry of Education, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China, National Clinical Research Center of Geriatric Disorders, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1135-7876

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