Vitamin D insufficiency may account for almost 90% of Covid-19 deaths

Re:Vitamin D insufficiency may account for almost 90% of Cov... by pacaro on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @02:36AM (#25263229)

I lived in the UK during the vCJD panic (colloquially mad cow disease), this bars me from giving blood or being an organ donor.

For a sense of scale a total of 177 people have died of vCJD, out of a UK population of approx 60,000,000

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Re:Vitamin D insufficiency may account for almost 90% of Cov... by pacaro on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @02:41AM (#25263254)

To be fair, I do understand that universally fatal, untreatable, undiagnosable, undetectable diseases with unknown incubation periods are scary, and I understand that blood donation is an amplification factor for blood borne diseases, hence the caution.

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Re:Vitamin D insufficiency may account for almost 90% of Cov... by turing_complete on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @03:03AM (#25263362)

Well, but it was over 20, maybe over 30 years ago. I understand your anger.

Imagine, the UK would adapt this rule.

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