First, I am not an anti-vaxxer, I think we need vaccines AND better health and nutrition to get through the pandemic. So why is this a surprise? Why do you thi

First, I am not an anti-vaxxer, I think we need vaccines AND better health and nutrition to get through the pandemic. So why is this a surprise? Why do you think we need these vitamins and hormones? (Vitamin D is actually a hormone) For our health! You will find that many of the risk factors of COVID are also outcomes of vitamin D deficiency. https://portlandpress.com/biochemj/article-abstract/474/8/1321/49583/Vitamin-D-deficiency-and-diabetes https://portlandpress.com/biochemj/article-abstract/474/8/13... https://clinicalhypertension.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40885-018-0094-4 https://clinicalhypertension.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1... But what should be being studied even more than Vitamin D? ZINC. A zinc deficiency not only effects ACE and ACE2, but also ADAM17, which cleaves ACE2 off the cell to make soluble ACE2. When the virus attaches to soluble ACE2 it cannot enter the cell. https://www.mdpi.com/viruses/viruses-12-00491/article_deploy/html/images/viruses-12-00491-g001.png https://www.mdpi.com/viruses/viruses-12-00491/article_deploy... More studies on Soluble ACE2 and COVID that are constantly ignored: A novel soluble ACE2 protein protects from lethal SARS-CoV-2 infection https://pesquisa.bvsalud.org/global-literature-on-novel-coro https://pesquisa.bvsalud.org/global-literature-on-novel-coro... Bioengineered angiotensin-converting-enzyme-2: a potential therapeutic option against SARS-CoV-2 infection https://www.nature.com/articles/s41371-021-00636-y https://www.nature.com/articles/s41371-021-00636-y Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Convertase (ADAM17) Mediates Regulated Ectodomain Shedding of the Severe-acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus (SARS-CoV) Receptor, Angiotensin-converting Enzyme-2 (ACE2) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002192582 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002192582... AKI in a mouse model of COVID-19: Therapeutic potential of a novel soluble ACE2 variant https://pesquisa.bvsalud.org/global-literature-on-novel-coro https://pesquisa.bvsalud.org/global-literature-on-novel-coro... Killing Two Birds with One Stone by Administration of Soluble ACE2: A Promising Strategy to Treat Both Cardiovascular Diseases and SARS-CoV-2 Infection https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/11/2243 https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/11/2243 Potent prophylactic and therapeutic efficacy of recombinant human ACE2-Fc against SARS-CoV-2 infection in vivo https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-021-00302-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-021-00302-0 Soluble ACE2 in SARS-CoV-2 infection https://www.nature.com/articles/s41581-021-00422-6 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41581-021-00422-6 Zinc supplementation bolsters repurposed antivirals against SARS-CoV-2 https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210202/Zinc-supplementat https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210202/Zinc-supplementat... COVID-19: Poor outcomes in patients with zinc deficiency https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197122 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197122...