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Re:Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf] by graeme on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @01:13PM (#24063134)
They’re single use doses. These are often used by doctors to treat severe deficiency, e.g. weekly 50,000 UI.

It is plausible that in an ICU situation with limited time a single, even larger dose makes sense. For an individual not critically ill, more gradual daily boosting of vitamin D is possible. The ICU patients didn’t have this time.

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Re:Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf] by Florin_Andrei on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @02:42PM (#24064091)
What's the LD50 for vitamin D?
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Re:Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf] by LegitShady on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @04:48PM (#24065434)
You experience issues with hypercalcemia long before the ld50 becomes an issue if you plan on supplementing too much
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Re:Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf] by Florin_Andrei on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @08:41PM (#24067121)
I'm thinking of a single megadose scenario.
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