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One 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/PMC4
by nostromo 6y ago
One 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!