I saw this and decided to share. A recent (March 2024) meta-study found...the results of our meta-analysis seem to support the use of vitamin D, especially in populations with vitamin D deficiencies, in the prevention of COVID-19 infection and in the prevention of related complications.
In the RCTs performed on HCWs [Health Care Workers: a high risk environment] the overall reduction in risk in the population supplemented with vitamin D was approximately 80%.
Well, as John McClain said in Die Hard, "Welcome to the party, pal." I was recommending this back in spring of 2020!
I highlighted the phrase "especially... vitamin D deficiencies" because 42% of Americans are deficient in vitamin D. Vitamin D deficiency is especially prevalent in the aged, the obese, and dark-skinned races, which are the groups hardest hit by COVID.
- 76% of US COVID deaths were 65+ and 6 t0 7 in 10 are deficient in vit D
- 78% of US COVID deaths were obese and 80% to 90% are deficient in vit D
I didn't search for data by race, but I recall from my research years ago that 83% of African Americans are deficient in vit D.
Do the math. That's at least 900,000 of the 1.2 million COVID deaths in the US.
I first mentioned vit D in this forum in April 2020 and started championing vit D as a preventive in June 2020.
Had the Covid Task Force (Fauci, Birx, Collins, Marks, et al) addressed these two interventions back in spring 2020 by urging the masses to take vitamin D and to lose weight in their daily press conferences, it's possible that upwards of a quarter million lives could have been saved in the US alone... not to mention the other health benefits of both of these steps.
It's so tragic that I, a retiree with a laptop, could figure this out in spring 2020, but none of our so-called experts used their bully pulpit in their daily press conferences to urge the public to take vit D and lose weight.