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I'm not Deva, however this is basically an anecdotal case from one clinic. To garner further scientific consideration, they'd need to expand their idea into an
by WhompingWindows 6y ago
I'm not Deva, however this is basically an anecdotal case from one clinic. To garner further scientific consideration, they'd need to expand their idea into an RCT, otherwise there are too many confounding factors and lack of control to say that the hammer is actually effective and that we aren't seeing placebo effects, biases introduced, etc.
- devaboone 6y agoAgree. It's nice to say that I did something and the patient had amazing results, but it doesn't mean that my action had anything to do with how they felt. Many people will recover from the flu without any treatment. It might not matter whether you give a vitamin.
- nostromo 6y agoOne pilot study found that a big Vitamin D dose would cut the hospital length in half for people on ventilators. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4939707/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4939707/ The control group spent on average 36 days in the hospital, the group getting a single 500,000 IU dose of vitamin D3 spent an average of 18 days in the hospital.
- mrandish 6y agoIt's interesting data but we need to keep in mind that the demonstrated correlation is between "Vit D deficiency" and "worse COVID ICU outcomes". We don't have much yet (that I'm aware of) on D3 mega-supplementation specifically on those who were not D3 deficient to start with.
- genewitch 6y agoThe linked study was published in 2016, and has nothing to do with covid-19. And it also flies in the face of the physician comments at the head of this discussion, where a few doses of 5000-10000iu see harmful effects, this study was of a half million iu over 5 days!