“To BCG or not to BCG, that is the question!”. The challenge of BCG vaccination: Why can't we get it right?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Although the Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine has been in use since 1921 and has been given to more people in the world than any other vaccine, controversy continues around its use and is even escalating. Currently in Canada, the BCG vaccine is given routinely to newborns in First Nations communities. This practice is under active review because of concerns that the vaccine’s safety may outweigh the efficacy of the vaccine. The benefits of BCG have been hotly debated for many years and consensus has been hard to come by. After much debate and confusion, and seemingly endless review articles and meta-analyses, the prize of international consensus is still elusive. The thoroughness of the recent review literature makes another review article redundant. The purpose of this discussion is to familiarize the Canadian paediatric community with the issues so that its members can at least understand the language of the debate, if not actively participate and come to some conclusions!
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".