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Re:Covid-19 Mortality Risk Correlates Inversely with Vitamin... by User23 on Sunday October 31, 2021 @02:03PM (#29058920)
This statement assumes that death is the only bad outcome from COVID that sufficient Vitamin D3 levels prevent.

Death is useful as a metric because, unlike other health outcomes, particularly quality of life ones, there's no element of subjectivity.

Re:Covid-19 Mortality Risk Correlates Inversely with Vitamin... by rossdavidh on Sunday October 31, 2021 @02:23PM (#29059086)
Another useful aspect of death as a metric, is that it is the most widely reported (as compared to, say, maximum fever, amount of ventilation required, days in hospital, lasting anosmia, etc. etc.)
Re:Covid-19 Mortality Risk Correlates Inversely with Vitamin... by simion314 on Sunday October 31, 2021 @02:09PM (#29058956)
You could measure days of hospitalization too, I would suggest both vaccine and Vitamin supplements if there are no side-effects.
Re:Covid-19 Mortality Risk Correlates Inversely with Vitamin... by wrycoder on Sunday October 31, 2021 @03:38PM (#29059711)
It appears that with COVID, the proximate cause of death is often mis-coded, for financial reasons.