Quack Doctor Video

[Old Enough 2]

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.

[MLAA]

1. Florida does seem to have mr than it's share of covidiots.

Hopefully your son in law didn’t inherit that particular gene 🙂

[magicarpet]

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]

3. Oh, dear lord.

I can't begin to imagine that degree of ignorance.

[Laffy Kat]

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