Vitamin D found to curb covid

Vitamin D strongly tends to keep hospitalized covid patients out of intensive care, according to an analysis of a group of studies. And death rates are kept substantially down, the analysts report.

The authors urged further studies.

Christiano Argano, Raffaella Mallaci Bocchio, Giuseppe Natoli, Salvatore Scibetta, Salvatore Corrao and Marika Lo Monaco are  all associated with the Internal Medicine Department, National Relevance Hospital Trust, Palermo, Italy. Lo Monaco is also associated with the University of Palermo. All the authors have numerous scientific papers to their credit.

Protective Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation
on COVID-19-Related Intensive Care
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9864223/

The authors found:

The current evidence supports the benefits of vitamin D interventions in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 due to the protective effect provided by vitamin D against ICU admission and mortality. A meta-analysis per se does not allow us to state whether the results are truly positive or false-positive. In addition, the inclusion of studies with large effect sizes and significant heterogeneity separates us from the truth. For this reason, a TSA is mandatory to verify the reliability of meta-analysis results. In conclusion, the positive results highlighted again and now validated by TSAs suggest that an indisputable association between vitamin D supplementation and the protective effect on ICU admission can be considered definitive evidence. On the contrary, further studies are needed to assess the utilization of vitamin D regarding the risk of death in patients hospitalized with COVID-19.

A useful discussion of the vitamin D report is given by Dr. John Campbell, a sometimes controversial covid commentator. In the video he laments the fact that U.S., UK and Canadian health authorities do not recommend vitamin D as a preventive for covid and other viral infections, such as influenza.


Backup link:
https://youtu.be/x5sc7G4s4CY