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Anyone that wants to stay up to date with the virus should follow this channel [0]

It's from the semi retired Dr. John Campbell, his videos are low tech but high content. I've come to realize it is all our responsibility to make sure the health care professionals can handle this.

If we assume this is going to be as big as some predict it will be, we basically cannot escape it, but it is possible to lengthen the time in which most infections well arise, lowering the peak and curve, which will in turn greatly reduce the peak load on healthcare professionals.

A 1000 admissions a day might be impossible to handle, but 100 admissions stretched out over 10 days is much more manageable. This is something everyone can help with.

Also, take a lot of Vitamin D, it helps with handling the Covid19 and other respiratory tract infections (both viral and bacterial). [1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF9IOB2TExg3QIBupFtBDxg [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5yVGmfivAk

> take a lot of Vitamin D

In France you can only get pills dosed at a very small 800 IU (international unit, see: http://www.nafwa.org/vitamind.php) without prescription, but in the US, you'll find some bottles dosing a single pill up to 10 000 IU.

The pills look all the same no matter the dose. They are minuscule yellow balls, but they can be very concentrated.

So "take a lot of Vitamin D" doesn't mean "take a lot of pills". Target an amount of IU, and take exactly what you need for that.

Vitamin D has been found toxic if you take more than 60 000 IU/day for 3 month. You'd have to be quite heavy in your dosing to reach this, but I'd rather share the info.

There is no overdose possible if you get it from the natural source: exposition from the sun. And it's healthier. But as a geek you may see the light of your monitor much more than the one from the sun, and D supplements are incredibly cheap for the huge benefit in energy and mood they provide in the winter.

I take 5 000 UI/day (as Cholecalciferol, so D3), and my doctor already thinks it's a lot since the daily recommended dose here is 200 IU.

seems like SV is going from micro-dosing acid to micro-dosing vitamin D :)

Who said I stopped acid? :)

"Daily oral dosing of vitamin D3 using 5000 TO 50,000 international units a day in long-term hospitalized patients: Insights from a seven year experience."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30611908

> In summary, long-term supplementation with vitamin D3 in doses ranging from 5000 to 50,000 IUs/day appears to be safe.

Be careful about vitamins in the US though because the industry is entirely unregulated and many vitamin companies are pyramid schemes, so you have very little guarantee that what’s on the bottle is in the pills.

Naturemade is the only brand that comes to mind with external lab certification of ingredients and being free from contamination, but I’m sure there are others:

https://www.consumerreports.org/supplements/how-to-choose-su...

Ireland just closed all schools and creches until the end of March. Indoor public gatherings limited to 100 people, outdoor to 250. Hope fully this will slow it enough to allow the health services to cope.

How much is a “lot of Vitamin D” for this particular goal?

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