My doctor is a strong proponent of Vitamin D, and kept increasing my dose till my blood level was in an optimal range. Everyone should ask their own doctors how much they should be taking under the present circumstances.

The answer will depend on various factors. People at more northern latitudes or in areas with lots of cloud cover, and people with browner skin get less from the sun even if they do go outside.

All that study seems to report is a correlation. Which is not the same as causation. Plus, of course, as pointed out in the article, it's possible people with better vitamin D are doing other beneficial things. Like, say, not smoking.

Which reminds me, a week or so ago there was a brouhaha about nicotine somehow being protective from the Corona virus. Wonder if there's been any follow up, or if it really was nothing.

since it can be isolated, it isn't necessary for folks to start smoking if it works.

But there’s no harm in making sure your Vitamin D levels are at optimal ranges.

so this makes sense. I take a daily multi pill, and generally eat a bowl of cereal with milk most mornings.

Can't say for sure my Vit D levels are at recommended levels, but I to work on it.

Pffffft.

Vitamin D and immunity

Dr. John Campbell

Lots of very good info. here:

outdoor workers history with contracting the virus would prove or disprove this theory.

I began an addition to my house in early February and there have been lots of workers on the property since then. I don't know of a single one of them that has been sick - other than a crew leader who had to take a couple of days off after visiting the ER for a severe asthma attack during pollen season.

That is a small number, 20-30 people, over the height of the outbreak. But considering that they pretty much could not keep a social distance while working together, their continued health seems to be a good omen for those in the construction business.

indicates vitamin D deficiency is pervasive there too according to this 2018 meta-analysis.

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Canning was also becoming a big trend to store food and that process destroys almost all nutrients.

There are suspicions that it also helped with the Black Death, because there were volcanic eruptions that led to hazing in the skies, lower sunlight, and crop yield failures for the couple of years before the outbreak occurred.

People have weakened immune systems from low nutrition.

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to make us a bit better informed than reading none at all. They do not in any way make us experts, and we all need to resist becoming more stupid by completely failing to understand the enormous gap between the notions we pick up and genuine, deep knowledge.

Science and expertise denial are being pushed hard by RW manipulators fighting truth, and don't for a minute think the effects aren't seen here also.

Btw, this doesn't say vit D is the only or a required factor. "COVID cure: Vitamin D, 1 pill every day." Not exactly.

This like almost everything related to COVID needs further study, of course, but I'm taking note because, due to autoimmune oversensitivity to UV and heat, I tend to be chronically low in vitamin D. I take a daily supplement, but that doesn't make my levels dependably normal.

Out to do one of the little strolls in the sun my doctor recommends but I scamp when it's hot. This IS Florida, and it's hot out there.

It hasn’t come up before but I’m not sure it’s one of the things they test for regularly. Anyway the doc told me to start taking 2000 IUD a day. I just started yesterday. In my case I think it’s linked to bone cancer but sounds like it’s good to keep taking it. I really haven’t been getting much sun since the lockdown.

When they drew the blood I had to sign something that said I’d pay for the D test out of pocket if insurance denies it. That’s the first time that’s happened which makes me think they haven’t been monitoring it before.