Importance of Vitamin D3 in preventing severe COVID-19 outcomes known since May 2020
Feb 2022 - Study shows Vitamin D3 deficiency leads to severe covid
Context: Information was known as early as May of 2020 (early in the pandemic), which indicated that there was a connection between severe COVID-19 with hospitalization and deficiency of vitamin D3.
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200518/more-vitamin-d-lower-risk-of-severe-covid-19
Shortly thereafter, by Oct of 2020, I distinctly recall reading an article that showed 80% of people hospitalized with severe COVID-19 were showing vitamin D3 deficiencies.
Do you recall the CDC, NIH or the FDA, saying hey, you got nothing to lose, increase your vitamin D3 intake during winter months, perhaps as high as 5,000 iu (especially for those elderly and people that do not get a lot of sunlight)?
There is a part of me to this day, that still wonders, how many lives could have been saved, if each and every person over 50, was sent a bottle of Vitamin D3, instead of Free Masks and Free Test Kits, maybe as early as May of 2020, but certainly Oct of 2020?
Feb 2022: Study: Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Severe COVID
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0263069
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20220208/vitamin-d-deficiency-tied-to-severe-covid
This Feb 2022 article, seems to offer strong evidence that many were aware in May of 2020, that were following the pandemic research closely.
I wonder how many Americans today know about these studies released in Spring of 2022. Be curious to see some data with a survey. It seems the corporate media is also peddling a single narrative, probably on the payout of Big Pharma. How could we recommend an over the counter and worst of all a vitamin (eek) that cost $20 a bottle that would last an entire year at 5,000 IU? No, that would be terrible!
It seems our medical machinery including the FDA, CDC, NIH, and Big Pharma were bent on generating billions in profit, at the expense of 100’s of thousands of human lives. It sure appears the COVID-19 pandemic could have been minimally (perhaps vastly) alleviated by the summer of 2020. It seems there is a gross level of incompetence and profiteering at this very agencies established to protect our health.