Does measles immunization lead to immunization for COVID-19? Case series

Abstract

There are many studies on protective, preventive and treatment methods for about Covid-19 pandemic, which affects the whole world.The results of epidemiological studies also guide these researches. The studies of the scientists who are struggling with this pandemic worldwide reveal that the incidence of covid-19 is low in the child age group and the disease survived more mildly in childhood. There is an opinion about the reason why covid-19 disease is seen less frequently and milder in pediatric patients, that active immunization created with childhood vaccines. For this reason, we compared the Rubeola immunoglobulin levels formed aganist the measles vector, one of the childhood vaccines which has antigenic similarity with the SARS-CoV family, in patients diagnosed with covid-19 in our hospital and Rubeola immunoglobulin levels of screening performed in healthy individuals before pandemi. As a result , we found the measles IgG levels were statistically significantly higher in patients diagnosed with measles IgG covid-19 compared to the control group. According to this result, this significant increase in level after being infected with SARS-CoV2 in patients with measles immunization may have positive effects on the course of the disease. In addition. we saw that all our Covid-19 patients with high measles antibody recovered without serious mortality and morbidity , despite their age, gender and chronic diseases. Therefore , considering the completion process of vaccination studies, we think that measles vaccination can be applied to risky groups without contraindications to reduce the existing destructive effects of the disease.