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Re:Vitamin D insufficiency may account for almost 90% of Cov... by UShouldBWorking on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:57PM (#25262141)
Also, an actual peer reviewed paper came out recently that showed giving vitamin d to covid patients upon admitting them did not decrease death rates. I'll look for the link but it was front page here like two weeks ago.
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Re:Vitamin D insufficiency may account for almost 90% of Cov... by coding123 on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @12:11AM (#25262558)
Please find the link because about 2 / 3 months ago there was a story that was exactly the opposite finding.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24366006

I've been monitoring HN for Vitamin D info very closely.

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Re:Vitamin D insufficiency may account for almost 90% of Cov... by zamfi on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @01:38AM (#25262988)
I think the parent poster is referring to https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.16.20232397v...

(Can't find the HN discussion link at the moment, unfortunately -- it didn't point to that particular link!)

Worth noting that this RCT was for bolus supplementation of Vitamin D3 at some point in their hospital stay, and excluded patients already supplementing with D3.

This study stands in stark contrast to the earlier pilot out of Spain: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096007602... -- though as noted, this was not D3 but rather Calcifediol (a D3 metabolite), and a much smaller study.

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Re:Vitamin D insufficiency may account for almost 90% of Cov... by Arech on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @03:20AM (#25263451)
There's nothing contradictory in it. It may take several months to restore normal Vitamin D level from the state of deficiency, so it's very long process. On average much longer than typical Covid duration.

Proper Vitamin D level should be reached _before_ contact with the virus. Then the data would be valuable and helpful. Theirs data doesn't show much, imho.

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