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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And yet, hundreds of articles and I've already been told by several people that they're taking supplemental Vit D because of it
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
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
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 …
Here is a study that measured 25(OH)D in hospital patients before, and during admission - and after: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3571484 … Would be intererested in your thoughts, and the other clinical studies that are pretty easy to track down.
Well, their statistical analysis is wrong - they are predicting Vitamin D levels using clinical outcomes, which is entirely the wrong way around. With no control for age at all, hard to know what any of it means unfortunately
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