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What if ?

I just read an interesting summary a study led by a John’s Hopkins researcher dealing with a “what if.” … “What if aggressive use of vitamin D had been used to prevent and to treat Covid instead of, or in addition to, what the government encouraged, pushed and sponsored.

During Covid, in addition to Zinc, I took 4000 units of Vitamin D each day. This was despite the FDA, the CDC, the WHO, and Dr. Fauci essentially telling everyone to only do what they said … and Vitamin D was not included in their recommendations. Eventually, I did get Covid (15 days after getting my first, and only, booster), felt crappy for 4-5 days, and then back to normal. What if I wasn’t taking Vitamin D?

A study of American veterans suggests that nationwide distribution of vitamin D supplements could have prevented over 110,000 COVID-19 deaths and millions more infections from the virus.

The study, published earlier this month in Scientific Reports, a sub-journal of Nature, looks into the relationship between vitamin D2 and D3 supplementation and the risk of dying from COVID-19 within 30 days following infection.

Using data provided by the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), the research team conducted an analysis of 199,498 veterans who were treated with vitamin D3 and 33,216 veterans treated with D2 between the pre-pandemic period from Jan. 1, 2019 to Dec. 31, 2020, and during the pandemic from March 1, 2020 to Dec. 31, 2020. Each patient was matched one-on-one with an untreated VA patient as control.

According to researchers, vitamin D2 and D3 supplementation during the pandemic reduced the probability of COVID-19 infection by 20 and 28 percent, respectively. There was a 49 percent reduction in COVID-19 infection in patients who had lower-than-normal vitamin D blood levels.

The study also found that vitamin D3 supplementation was related to a 33 percent lower risk of dying within 30 days of COVID-19 infection, although vitamin D2 treatment didn’t produce statistically significant results in that regard.

Now that Covid has basically gone by the wayside, I haven’t heard Fauci et al comment on this recent “what if” Vitamin D study. Nonetheless, with RSV still around, I have decreased my Vitamin D intake to 2,000  u per day.

12/10/22

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