Shout this one from the rooftops and let the whole world know there is a cheap, readily available and effective preventative for Covid!
A recent study published in the MDPI or Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute found that people taking vitamin D daily and who have at least 50 ng/mL in their blood have a mortality rate of zero for COVID-19. (Nanograms per milliliter, abbreviated ng/mL, is the unit of measure most commonly used in test results in blood, urine and oral fluid. A nanogram is a billionth of a gram. A milliliter is one thousandth of a liter.)
Read that again: “…people taking vitamin D daily and who have at least 50 ng/mL in their blood have a mortality rate of zero for COVID-19.”
According to the paper, without calcium supplementation even very high vitamin D3 supplementation does not cause vascular calcification. The authors say that vitamin D3 supplementation in the range of 4000 to 10,000 units (100 to 250 µg) is needed to generate an optimal 40–60 ng/mL level. Supplementing vitamin D with approximately 200 µg of vitamin K2 is recommended by the authors of the paper to help filter calcium into the bones instead of the blood.
Another recent study found that among COVID-19-positive patients, the group with vitamin D levels of more than 30 ng/ml had significantly lower hospital stays, and no difference was found among the groups in terms of age and gender distribution.
According to the paper, elevated vitamin D levels could even decrease COVID-19 PCR positivity.