A recent German study found a linear relationship between vitamin D levels and mortality from covid, and essentially, zero morbidity for those with a D level above 50 ng/mL.
“At a threshold level of 30 ng/mL, mortality decreases considerably. In addition, our analysis shows that the correlation for the combined datasets intersects the axis at approximately 50 ng/mL, which suggests that this vitamin D3 blood level may prevent any excess mortality."
Studies have already shown that one is 14 times more likely to die from COVID with vitamin D deficiency.
A meta-analysis of 23 published studies containing 11,901 participants found that one who is vitamin D-deficient was 3.3 times more likely to get infected with SARS-CoV-2 than one who is not deficient.
The reality is that most people’s levels are below 30 and many are closer to zero, especially among the elderly population.
With studies having shown zero correlation between lockdowns, masks, and vaccines and better COVID outcomes, there are now 142 studies vouching for the near-perfect correlation between higher vitamin D levels and better outcomes in COVID patients.
It is beyond criminal that 20 months into this endeavor there has not been a national campaign percolating down to primary care physicians to test and supplement vitamin D levels accordingly.
As the authors explain, the main cause of death from COVID stems from a “cytokine storm” when the body’s immune system releases too many toxic cytokines as part of the inflammatory response to the virus.
Vitamin D is the key regulator of those cells, and the insufficient amount of D is nearly synonymous with a greater risk for a cytokine storm.
In many ways, a cytokine storm is literally the outcome of vitamin D deficiency.
@KanekoaTheGreat
If we all took D3, C and zinc every day, we would have near perfect immune systems. And covid would be even less trouble than the seasonal flu.
Everyone in medicine knows this, but they won't tell us. Why?
I think that the findings are promising, but we also have to do further analysis to determine how clean the causal relationship is because people with low vitamin D are often really sick people who cannot go outdoors and have other serious health issues.
I would be interested to see an analysis that normalizes the health levels of the people with adequate vitamin D, as well as an analysis of whom within the normal vitamin D group were taking supplements to reach that level.
That said, the government and health bodies should absolutely be promoting outdoor exercise and time, and vitamin D supplements if people cannot get natural production. The fact that they are not even mentioning this is a sure sign that they have no interest in actual public health.