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Re:Vitamin D improves survival in Covid-19 elderly patients by IronRanger on Monday November 16, 2020 @04:59PM (#25117538)
Instead of lockdown, why don't Governments issue free Vitamin D to all households and at all pharamcies, all winter? The cost would be a few million - against tens of billions for lockdown.
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Re:Vitamin D improves survival in Covid-19 elderly patients by stjohnswarts on Monday November 16, 2020 @09:18PM (#25119629)
Because vitamin might make a difference but it's won't be enough to just willy nilly let people catch covid at will without any precautions. IF it was basically a cure as you're implying then it would have been found out a long time ago as the difference would have been obvious even without a controlled experiment.
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Re:Vitamin D improves survival in Covid-19 elderly patients by MagnumOpus on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @08:49AM (#25123674)
Because VitD might reduce mortality by 20% to pick a number, which without lockdown still leaves millions of Americans dead - while lockdowns aim to stop the exponential growth and (if adhered to) reduce the number of infections and deaths by 95%+...
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Re:Vitamin D improves survival in Covid-19 elderly patients by smaryjerry on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @03:04AM (#25121225)
They put it in milk and other products already just for health.
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