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That's really interesting, and has an even stronger conclusion: "When controlling for age, sex, and comorbidity, Vitamin D status is strongly associated with C

• elliekelly 6y ago
  The vitamin D deficiency is particularly interesting to me with respect to pregnant women and smokers. There have been cases of pregnant women who were unknowingly infected with Covid-19[1] and it seems there’s some evidence the smokers are less likely to be admitted to the hospital with a severe case. I would expect both groups to have higher than average vitamin D regardless of their age, background, health issues. Pregnant women consistently take prenatal vitamins for months and (most) smokers consistently get daily sun exposure because they go outside to smoke. And from what little we know it seems both groups fare better when they are infected. [1]https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2009316 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2009316