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I would say that we don't yet have the desired level of evidence for the effectiveness of either masks or vitamin D supplements when it comes to battling covid-
by spuz 6y ago
I would say that we don't yet have the desired level of evidence for the effectiveness of either masks or vitamin D supplements when it comes to battling covid-19. The difference is that it's almost certainly not going to harm someone to wear a mask, whereas recommending vitamin D supplements to everyone might.
I really want vitamin D to be the miracle cure for this disease but so far only a single RCT has been published. Like you say, this study adds to the pile but doesn't talk about supplementation as such. This particular paper was completed in July and only published two days ago. Hopefully that means there are more studies waiting to be released that can give us a more concrete answer.
- gridlockd 6y ago> The difference is that it's almost certainly not going to harm someone to wear a mask, whereas recommending vitamin D supplements to everyone might. Vitamin-D supplementation is considered safe and is already recommended to everyone by health authorities, at least seasonally, not specifically for COVID-19 related reasons. That's just not part of the media spectacle, but it think it should be. There were lots of arguments against masks in the beginning, such as people becoming more careless due to feeling "protected". It's a valid argument to make, but you couldn't make it anymore today, "masks are good" is dogma. Obviously, Vitamin D is not a miracle cure, but there's mounting evidence that it may be beneficial, just like masks, perhaps even drastically more so. I don't accept the "we need to wait for more evidence" argument anymore when I'm simultaneously forced by law to wrap a piece of cloth against my mouth/noise, based on similarly poor evidence.