Study confirms vitamin D protects against colds and flu (2017)

Re:Study confirms vitamin D protects against colds and flu (... by ps07 on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @02:40AM (#22602365)

I was looking at the temp and humidity of cities effected and most were in the under 20C 50% humidity band. Maybe sunny weather makes a diff given the vitamin D connection.

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Re:Study confirms vitamin D protects against colds and flu (... by troydavis on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @02:58AM (#22602443)

Here’s an analysis of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22563932 (“High Temperature and High Humidity Reduce the Transmission of COVID-19”):

> One degree Celsius increase in temperature and one percent increase in relative humidity lower R by 0.0383 and 0.0224, respectively.

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Re:Study confirms vitamin D protects against colds and flu (... by feanaro on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:35AM (#22602614)

Unfortunately, if you take a look at figure 3 in that paper, you'll see that correlation is extremely weak and the non-zero coefficients almost entirely driven by a single outlier.

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Re:Study confirms vitamin D protects against colds and flu (... by ankit219 on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @02:43AM (#22602377)

That would be bad news for UK and could be good news for India, Indonesia, and some African and South American countries

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Re:Study confirms vitamin D protects against colds and flu (... by fnord123 on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @04:31AM (#22602886)

It's quite obviously spicy food that helps the most. Or rather its my excuse to eat everything spicy for the next month.

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