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When I first read that women in Norway of reproductive age were getting clots, my immediate question was “Are they using the pill?” Many years ago I tried the pill and immediately suffered severe nausea. i stopped using it, then when I got pregnant I suffered severe nausea for 6 months. My second pregnancy I discovered that by using 25 mg. of Vitamin B6 I had NO nausea except the one day I forgot to take it. Later I read that someone else had suggested using B6 with the AstraZenica shot. I also read that deficiency in Vitamin D causes platelets to get very large. Since capillaries can get so narrow that only one red blood cell at a time can travel through, can large platelets be a cause of “Covid toe.” This did not answer the cause of clots elsewhere,rebut subsequently I also saw an article regarding something causing platelets to clump together.

I have read several articles regarding Covid studies which report NO patients have arrived at the hospital with OPTIMUM Vitamin D levels. Over 90% of these patients had insufficient or deficient levels of Vitamin D. So this suggests get your Vitamin D levels in the optimum range and you won’t end up hospitalized for Covid (and perhaps other illnesses too). Kaiser Permanente tested me this December and listed the optimum range as 50 to 80 ng/mL. Insufficient is below 30 ng/mL and deficient is below 20 ng/mL. Since the first reported cases were mostly Norwegian women, I suspect that they were all low on Vitamin D as this is far north, and women spend less time out in the sun. Of course some men and boys don’t get much sun either, especially in the north and in winter. Remember, much of Europe is further north than most of the US. One further thought, heparin seems to be a negative for use in these cases as an anticoagulent. Also dark skin does not allow Vitamin D formed in oils on the skin to be easily absorbed into the body. Washing off your skin oils right after being in the sun, or using SPF protection also reduces Vitamin D levels. So get tested and ask your doctor how much Vitamin D to take to get to the optimum level. I had been taking 5000 IU of Vitamin D3 for a number of months and was in the middle of the OPTIMUM range.