[madison10]

Hmmm...media seems to be running three or four days behind FR.

[all the best]

I started telling family and friends about the importance of vitamin D two months ago.

[JudyinCanada]

Lots of Vit D deficiencies out there now - especially among children. I am sure the use of sun screen will figure into this - so many parents won’t let a drop of sun touch their kids. I never used the stuff on mine.

[frank ballenger]

Vitamin D deficiency often happens when people are inside and in cloudy conditions outside.

As the theory that warm weather and fresh air will lower the virus peaks.

And maybe the ones on surfboards and training for running marathons are not usually obese-—and obesity is a big factor in worse outcomes of the victims.

[KC_Lion]

Put how can a person get Vitamin D without supplements?????

[P.O.E.]

Soon they will announce that washing your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds can be effective /s

[mom.mom]

This isolated masked germ free lifestyle is deadly. It prevents our immune systems from building and strengthening by exposure to microbes, bacterias and bugs. Our weakened defenses will be challenged by deadlier diseases and lose.

[Islander7]

I started my wife and I on D3 and zinc in March. We’re both laid off, so we’ve spent most of our time working in our yard. Sunshine is indeed a great disinfectant.

[sauropod]

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[Wonder Warthog]

"Patients from countries with high COVID-19 mortality rates, such as Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, had lower levels..."

Correlation is not causation. "Sunlight availability" in Spain and Italy is higher than for the UK and especially Denmark, Finland and Norway, yet Italy and Spain have higher Covid than the UK, Denmark, etc. Without actual BLOOD MEASUREMENTS of Vitamin D3 levels and comparison with VIRAL LOAD the study is "less than valuable".

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"Cytokine storm can severely damage lungs and lead to acute respiratory distress syndrome and death in patients" said Ali Daneshkhah, a postdoctoral research associate at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering.

Go engineers! (I are one)

Wait! They are quoting an ENGINEER??? What in the world? Even I can say "cytokine storm." Why aren't they quoting me?

[SeekAndFind]

Makes me wonder what parts of Spain and Italy the lack of Vitamin D are...

Both countries have VERY SUNNY places, which in theory, should give inhabitants lots of Vitamin D.

[Georgia Girl 2]

We take 4,000 units of D3 daily plus added zinc lately.

[njtrucker]

Farm fresh eggs are a good source of vitamin D. Chickens absorb it for the sun and pass it along to their embryos

[null and void]

Next up, zinc fights COVID-19

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.

[jdege]

Patients from countries with high COVID-19 mortality rates, such as Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, had lower levels of vitamin D compared to patients in countries that were not as severely affected, according to the study.

If they had information correlating patients with low levels of vitamin D with higher mortality rates, that might be meaningful. But they're corollating mortality rates with patients from countries where low levels are common, and that's almost meaningless.

[Don Corleone]

IOW get out in the sunshine!

[Cicero]

It’s hard to get enough sunshine all the time. Even in summer you can get weeks of cloudy whether.

I live in Vermont, where it’s hard to get enough sun. I take a daily 5iu capsule of Vitamin D-3, and a Vitamin C tablet, and that does the trick.

[MrChips]

Well, yes, and as a precaution, I take extra Vitamin D every day (and Zinc). But, I lost a friend to the FCCV (Fu4k#ng Communist Chinese Virus) and he was a sun-worshipper, spent a couple of hours on the beach every sunny day of his life in Florida. You would think he had Vitamin D in huge quantities.

[kelly4c]

Bkmk