Quite interesting & worth your time if you’re interested in the connection between low Vit D levels & COVID-19:
Ep74 Vitamin D Status, Latitude and Viral Interactions: Examining the Data [Ivor Cummins]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwwTBF14Plc
10 times the rate of death from COVID with insufficient Vit D levels (below 30 ng).
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Separate link, re: Vit D & influenza:
Vitamin D for influenza
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4463890/
Excerpt (last 2 paragraphs):
The Institute of Medicine recommendation for adults younger than 70 years of age is 600 IU of vitamin D daily. We are told that this would achieve a level of 50 nmol/L in greater than 97.5% of individuals.6 Regrettably, a statistical error has resulted in erroneous recommendations by the Institute of Medicine leading to this conclusion and it might actually take 8800 IU of vitamin D to achieve this level in 97.5% of the population.7 This is a serious public health blunder.
A colleague of mine and I have introduced vitamin D at doses that have achieved greater than 100 nmol/L in most of our patients for the past number of years, and we now see very few patients in our clinics with the flu or influenzalike illness. In those patients who do have influenza, we have treated them with the vitamin D hammer, as coined by my colleague. This is a 1-time 50 000 IU dose of vitamin D3 or 10 000 IU 3 times daily for 2 to 3 days. The results are dramatic, with complete resolution of symptoms in 48 to 72 hours. One-time doses of vitamin D at this level have been used safely and have never been shown to be toxic.8 We urgently need a study of this intervention. The cost of vitamin D is about a penny for 1000 IU, so this treatment costs less than a dollar.
” In those patients who do have influenza, we have treated them with the vitamin D hammer, as coined by my colleague. This is a 1-time 50 000 IU dose of vitamin D3 or 10 000 IU 3 times daily for 2 to 3 days. The results are dramatic, with complete resolution of symptoms in 48 to 72 hours.”
I’ve done this for flu and it is knocked out within 2-3 days. Few symptoms.
Exactly what did with covid. Gone in 2.5 days. Added nebulizer with Respiratory Relief for two days. Gone.
I’m living proof the “D Hammer” works.