Ask HN: How best to help offshore colleagues survive Covid-19? Mine is in Mumbai

Re:Ask HN: How best to help offshore colleagues survive Covi... by hellofunk on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @04:46PM (#23556528)

This might not sound like much but have them take good doses of vitamin D, vitamin B, and magnesium. There has been quite a bit written in recent weeks about those deficiencies leading to much more severe illness.

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Re:Ask HN: How best to help offshore colleagues survive Covi... by rfreytag on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @05:36PM (#23557066)

I will mention vitamin D supplements, thank you.

References to Vitamin D that seem very credible: - https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/05/04/vitamin-d-covid-19-evid... - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32252338/

Not seeing much about Vitamin B, _maybe_ this grab bag from a Wiley journal:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmv.25707

And this less strong support for magnesium: - https://www.livescience.com/61866-magnesium-vitamin-d.html

Mayo Clinic cautions about supplementary magnesium: - https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/magnesium-suppl...

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Re:Ask HN: How best to help offshore colleagues survive Covi... by hellofunk on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @06:01PM (#23557289)