VITAMIN D3 AND COVID INFECTION

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Context

Vitamin D3 can protect against fatal COVID-19 infection: Study published in PubMed.

Findings

Widespread vitamin D deficiency was recorded before the COVID-19 pandemic began.
The study attributed this shortfall to modern lifestyle that is “far from optimal with respect to nutrition, physical fitness, and recreation”.
Patients with sufficiently high D3 serum levels preceding the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are highly unlikely to suffer a fatal outcome.
There is an inverse correlation between vitamin D levels and COVID-19 death rate.
Vitamin D3’s effectiveness in curing several diseases, especially acute respiratory distress syndrome that is also a COVID-19 after-effect, is well-known.
Vitamin D3 effectively suppresses “the progression of inflammation by reducing the generation of inflammatory cytokines”.
Cytokine release syndrome, also known as “cytokine storm”, causes multiple organ damage — a key cause of death in late stage COVID-19 cases.
The research, recommended “combining vaccination with routine strengthening of the immune system of the whole population by vitamin D3 supplementation to consistently guarantee blood levels above 50 nanograms per millilitre”.
After rickets — a condition that softens bones — in the 19th century, “SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is becoming the second breakthrough in the history of vitamin D3 association with disease”.

Significance

From a social and political point of view, it will lower the need for further contact restrictions and lockdowns.
From an economical point of view, it will save billions of dollars worldwide, as vitamin D3 is inexpensive, and together with vaccines, provide a good opportunity to get the spread of SARS-CoV-2 under control.