Get Real: no drug or vaccine will avoid a very big coronavirus epidemic

Re:Get Real: no drug or vaccine will avoid a very big corona... by herf on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @11:29AM (#22485143)

Here are three negative results (all randomized controlled trials) for Vitamin D supplementation during the winter:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2019.0006...

failed to show any effect on wintertime supplementation of D (using pre-registered criteria)

http://www.vitaminedelft.org/files/art/ling2009.pdf "no benefit"

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/fo/c4fo0... "did not lower incidence of influenza"

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Re:Get Real: no drug or vaccine will avoid a very big corona... by belltaco on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @11:43AM (#22485288)

Here's a positive result.

https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583

"Vitamin D supplementation was safe and it protected against acute respiratory tract infection overall. Patients who were very vitamin D deficient and those not receiving bolus doses experienced the most benefit."

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Re:Get Real: no drug or vaccine will avoid a very big corona... by herf on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @12:19PM (#22485603)

Good one (odds ratio=0.88), and it's generally low-risk.

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Re:Get Real: no drug or vaccine will avoid a very big corona... by LinuxBender on Thursday March 12, 2020 @02:14PM (#22559871)

It would be no benefit to anyone that is not already deficient. [1]

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6075634/

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