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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2020

      I decided to delve into the "Vitamin D can cure COVID-19" articles to see what the fuss is about and this is WILD Blog forthcoming, but holy shit this is the worst argument I've seen in a very long timepic.twitter.com/UUIZzPtUTN

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2020

      The basic story - two studies correlated PAST measurements of Vitamin D levels with CURRENT COVID-19 deaths and concluded that it might be implicated This is such staggering nonsense I don't know where to start...

      3:11 PM - 12 May 2020
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      • Kelvin Wee Denise Dickeson Bubobubosibericus✊🏾 💧 Ian "Department of Diseasology" 🍩 Musgrave Ardern of Faversham Kenneth Daniel Ms D 🌈 sally Ankit Sharma
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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2020

          Did people who died from the disease actually HAVE low Vit D levels? Was this the case BEFORE the disease onset? What confounding factors might be at play? We have NO IDEA!!! Epidemiological nonsense

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2020

          And yet, hundreds of articles and I've already been told by several people that they're taking supplemental Vit D because of it

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        4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2020

          There's some evidence from studies of Vit D being useful for OTHER respiratory infection, but many of these studies looked at people with asthma and it's hard to know if this would transfer to infection with COVID-19

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        5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2020

          It's also worth noting that there doesn't seem to be any good evidence of Vitamin D protecting against DEATH from infection, which is really what we care about

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        6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2020

          Blog is now up, there were even more studies out there any some of them were even worse somehowhttps://medium.com/the-method/should-you-take-a-vitamin-d-supplement-for-covid-19-63d922f24953 …

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        1. Colman‏ @colmanareilly 12 May 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          That’s “here’s something someone should have a look at”.

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        2. Colin‏ @Colin67118927 12 May 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          The link to COVID-19 specifically is only a correlation at the moment but past studies have shown a casual link between vitamin d supplementation and greatly reduced risk (up to 70% in those deficient) of respiratory tract infections in controlled trialshttps://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583 …

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2020
          Replying to @Colin67118927

          I actually am quite unsure about that SR/MA. They found what appears to be quite significant publication bias if you look in the supplementary materials, but made no correction for it at all. Better-quality studies seemed to find no benefitpic.twitter.com/bOGbFIvkiT

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        2. Noah Haber‏ @NoahHaber 12 May 2020
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          You're dangerously close to finding my previously mentioned worst-study-ever. I don't think you've found it yet, but you're getting there.

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 May 2020
          Replying to @NoahHaber

          Is it the Indonesian case-control study of Vit D that's apparently definitive evidence despite a) not calling itself a case-control b) not defining ANYTHING about how participants were selected and c) being pretty dicey ethically?

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