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Vitamin D deficiency is a marker for one of several health conditions leaving people vulnerable to Covid. There is no reason to believe that this would work as
by zxcb1 6y ago
Vitamin D deficiency is a marker for one of several health conditions leaving people vulnerable to Covid. There is no reason to believe that this would work as a general treatment.
- Herodotus38 6y agoI agree. There is ongoing research into whether the correlation of low vit D is just the association with other comorbidities or whether there may be an independent risk to low levels. I expect additional studies to result in the coming months that will show more evidence on supplementation before patients are sick enough to be hospitalized. My gut feeling is that it won't make a difference, but until we have the data I can't know for sure. This study, however, makes me feel more confident that I am not hurting a patient by withholding vit D supplementation if htey are admitted with severe Covid.