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Vitamin D can help fight COVID-19

PHOENIX – Could an over the counter capsule be a key in fighting COVID-19? More doctors say yes, and they’re urging health professionals to help eliminate vitamin D deficiencies – especially in patients of color and others disproportionately affected by the disease.

“Patients, especially patients who are hospitalized for COVID-19, should be given vitamin D supplementation … and it should be fast and aggressive,” said Dr. Vatsal Thakkar, a psychiatrist in Westport, Connecticut, who is one of more than 200 scientists and doctors worldwide pushing for “immediate widespread increased vitamin D intakes.”

Last month, Thakkar joined Richard Carmona, former U.S. surgeon general and professor at the University of Arizona, and John Umhau, a preventive medicine physician, in writing a column urging providers to identify and eradicate vitamin D deficiency to help combat COVID-19, which has infected more than 27 million Americans and killed about 490,000.

https://indiancountrytoday.com/coronavirus/vitamin-d-can-help-fight-covid-19-kweLAhj1m0uETRqMGxkpkw

 

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