People have been tagging me a lot in Vitamin D for COVID-19 articles, and as far as I can tell the evidence is still pretty much what it was when I wrote this months ago:https://medium.com/the-method/should-you-take-a-vitamin-d-supplement-for-covid-19-63d922f24953 …
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"At this point in time, we really have no idea if supplementation is helpful or harmful in this case" True in May. Remarkably, still mostly true in September
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If there's a study I've missed, please let me know, but thus far we have one tiny, poorly controlled randomized trial, and a bucket of similar epidemiological studies with not much else
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It's a pretty similar level of evidence to what we've seen before - retrospective observational study of a relatively small sample associating low vitamin D levels with disease. That's not the same as supplementing vit D to reduce disease
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That's just another ecological study. How do we know that the people who they had blood test results for were the same group as those infected with COVID-19?
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