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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsQuack Doctor Video
Disturbing, my daughter received a video from her mother in law convinced that Covid is due to lack of Vitamin D and this from the Sunshine State.
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Quack Doctor Video (Original Post)
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Apr 2021
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MLAA
(17,162 posts)1. Florida does seem to have mr than it's share of covidiots.
Hopefully your son in law didnt inherit that particular gene 🙂
magicarpet
(13,935 posts)2. There is an indication that Vitamin D is helpful to keep Covid 19 in check.
Journal of American Medical Association,..
Findings In this cohort study of 489 patients who had a vitamin D level measured in the year before COVID-19 testing, the relative risk of testing positive for COVID-19 was 1.77 times greater for patients with likely deficient vitamin D status compared with patients with likely sufficient vitamin D status, a difference that was statistically significant.
Meaning These findings appear to support a role of vitamin D status in COVID-19 risk; randomized clinical trials are needed to determine whether broad population interventions and interventions among groups at increased risk of vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19 could reduce COVID-19 incidence.
Abstract
Importance Vitamin D treatment has been found to decrease the incidence of viral respiratory tract infection, especially in patients with vitamin D deficiency.
Much more at link below,...
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2770157#247390675
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,746 posts)3. Oh, dear lord.
I can't begin to imagine that degree of ignorance.
Laffy Kat
(16,354 posts)4. Nope, but vitamin D may (MAY!) help fight the virus by reducing inflammation.
I am not big on vitamin supplements at all, although there has been a lot of interest over the lack of 25-hydroxyvitamin D and worse outcomes for covid patients. The study outcomes have been ambiguous, though; here is one below. On a personal note, I take 5,000 IU/per day ordered by my PC because my vit D was so low, to begin with. I don't take it because of covid, however.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2776736