Doctors are still digging into the sunshine supplement's supposed magic.
didn’t find any positive or negative outcomes of treating hospitalized COVID patients with vitamin D supplements.
Monica Gandhi, an infectious diseases doctor and professor of medicine at University of California-San Francisco, notes that much of this published work is observational, which means it looks for trends but doesn’t directly measure the effect of a treatment. What’s more, with small sizes and no control and experimental groups, she says, it’s almost impossible to establish a scientifically sound conclusion.
CDC data collected over the course of the pandemic holds that non-Hispanic American Indians, non-Hispanic Blacks, and Hispanic or Latinos in the US were roughly three times more likely to be hospitalized from COVID than their Non-Hispanic Asian, Pacific Islander, or white peers. Campen, of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, notes that, anecdotally, she saw patients of color suffering from worse symptoms—but she’s not yet convinced that vitamin D deficiency is the reason.
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