Vitamin D deficiency is associated with increased Covid-19 severity
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Encouraging testing and supplementation of vitamin D in an early phase on top of getting vaccinated could have potentially saved many lifes. Especially for those who cannot be vaccinated.
Instead every time that someone suggested vitamin D for Covid, the media did their best to discredit that as potential misinformation, because not engough data and enough vitamin through healthy diet and outside activity. So instead of encouraging people to optimize their vitamin D, they even discouraged vitamin D, even when it has been known for years that there is an epidemic of vitamin D deficiency.
Similarly there is an epidemic of magnesium deficiency, but not as severe as the low vitamin D epidemic.
At least we already know that the lockdowns did not really save lifes:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jan/31/lockdowns-h...
I wonder also how much damage the "fact checking" of the media has caused. I have seen several "fact checks" that discouraged supplementation of vitamin D with questionable reasoning.
The so-called "study" is a working paper by economists, so not peer reviewed or anything. Passing this off as settled knowledge ("we already know") is beyond parody.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/02/06/did-so-call...
2. The tagesschau did not claim this so-called "study" was settled knowledge. It's not. Not even close.
Johns Hopkins Studie: Lockdown hat kaum Leben gerettet, wohl aber Masken
John's Hopkins study: Lockdown hardly saved lifes, but masks did
https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveblog-coronavirus-di...
Google Translation:
# New study: Hardly any lives saved with lockdowns
The total lockdown during the first corona wave saved almost no lives in Europe and the USA, according to the results of a meta-study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, which became the most important data source during the pandemic. However, masks for employees in companies or shops and the closing of bars and restaurants had a clear effect on the number of deaths from Covid-19.
The researchers examined more than 18,000 global studies on the consequences of the pandemic and only filtered out those that deal with excess mortality from Covid-19. A total of 0.3 percent fewer deaths is the balance for times of total lockdowns with exit restrictions. Masks for employees, on the other hand, have reduced the number of deaths by almost 24 percent, and closed bars by another 15 percent.
The order that only a few people are allowed to meet counts at three percent, as ARD correspondent Arthur Landwehr in Washington also reports from the study. Closed schools, on the other hand, had almost no effect, namely 0.1 percent, and the researchers were unable to measure any effect at all with closed borders.They, unlike you, never claimed that the study's "findings" were actually settled knowledge.
Spot the difference.
> Because the measures we have in place are working.
> (And of course people will reverse the causality on this and claim that "hey Denmark opened, and has much lower fatality rate...")
> Transmission rates would be a lot higher without vaccines.