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I keep seeing studies saying this but the only way I know about it is because the links run up to the top page on HN. It even gets pretty short shrift among som

I keep seeing studies saying this but the only way I know about it is because the links run up to the top page on HN. It even gets pretty short shrift among some of my more COVID-skeptic follows on Twitter. Seems like just total silence from media and public health officials on it.

andreygrehov 6y ago
Public health officials are not saints. They are common people, like all of us. There is a high chance that HN readers know about the latest news way before "public health officials".
- AndrewBissell 6y ago
  But this isn't "latest" news at this point, these studies have been coming out for awhile now, and given that low/moderate doses of vitamin D are a relatively low risk thing to take, a campaign to educate the public and at least get people to ask their doctors about it could make a big difference to the hospitalization rate.
  - mixmastamyk 6y ago
    Vitamin D has been known to improve outcomes with respiratory diseases like tuberculosis for about a century.
djsumdog 6y ago
I've heard people ask "Will all of this go away after the election," and we're seeing the same hysteria over COVID-19 in places like Canada and VIC, Australia, so my gut response would be 'no' ... But you cannot deny there is an extreme US-centric political angle to this; especially when you see stuff like this getting pulled or "fact checked" on major media platforms (who have shown their political colors). Maybe the American Media Propaganda machine is just bleeding out into the rest of the world? I cannot say, but I do think that COVID-19 is a case of mass hysteria, possibly the largest we've ever seen. I do not deny many have gotten sick and died, but I also think this is nowhere near as bad as people are making it out to be. The elderly should have been protected. The rest of us should have been allowed to make our own choices about risk. And the "long COVID" stories might be true or might be purely psychological. This is not a time of honor.

andreygrehov 6y ago

Public health officials are not saints. They are common people, like all of us. There is a high chance that HN readers know about the latest news way before "public health officials".

AndrewBissell 6y ago
But this isn't "latest" news at this point, these studies have been coming out for awhile now, and given that low/moderate doses of vitamin D are a relatively low risk thing to take, a campaign to educate the public and at least get people to ask their doctors about it could make a big difference to the hospitalization rate.
- mixmastamyk 6y ago
  Vitamin D has been known to improve outcomes with respiratory diseases like tuberculosis for about a century.

djsumdog 6y ago

I've heard people ask "Will all of this go away after the election," and we're seeing the same hysteria over COVID-19 in places like Canada and VIC, Australia, so my gut response would be 'no' ... But you cannot deny there is an extreme US-centric political angle to this; especially when you see stuff like this getting pulled or "fact checked" on major media platforms (who have shown their political colors). Maybe the American Media Propaganda machine is just bleeding out into the rest of the world? I cannot say, but I do think that COVID-19 is a case of mass hysteria, possibly the largest we've ever seen. I do not deny many have gotten sick and died, but I also think this is nowhere near as bad as people are making it out to be. The elderly should have been protected. The rest of us should have been allowed to make our own choices about risk. And the "long COVID" stories might be true or might be purely psychological. This is not a time of honor.