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A comment on Vitamin D and Inflammation: Potential Implications for Severity of Covid-19. Parent comment

Re:Vitamin D and Inflammation: Potential Implications for Se... by nmfisher on Friday May 15, 2020 @02:51AM (#23189632)
Can you explain how that works? As I understand it, UVB is responsible for both vitamin D synthesis and skin damage. So how is it then possible that 1 minute of sun-lamp radiation is equivalent to 15 minutes of natural/sun radiation in terms of vitamin D, but not in terms of skin damage?
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Re:Vitamin D and Inflammation: Potential Implications for Se... by rapsey on Friday May 15, 2020 @03:00AM (#23189682)
I was talking about tanning and burning. That is UVA. Vitamin D lamps limit the light to a single wavelength at least mine does. As for damage, the wavelengths that are suppose to cause the most damage are different to the wavelength that it uses for vitamin d.
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