I agree - but would add one more point to your list

There has been a lot of research looking at the influence of vitamin D on covid outcomes. There appears to be a strong correlation between vitamin D deficiency and ICU/death rates. Essentially, if you are vitamin D deficient you are substantially more likely to end up in intensive care / dying.

You can get vitamin D from sunlight, diet and supplementation. I would speculate that the proportion of the population that were vit d deficient at the end of the winter / first wave would be markedly higher than now. However, this could be expected to drop again as winter kicks in / second wave. This may be a cause of the reduced severity of covid at this time.

Posted By: Timmy_Goat on September 7th 2020 at 13:47:50

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Number of new Covid cases sounds a worry (n/m) (Coronavirus) - loz, Sep 7, 12:49:04
- It’s deaths being low that is most important. We are testing more people (Coronavirus) - Tony Martin, Sep 7, 15:19:20
- Why? (Coronavirus) - Danny_mills, Sep 7, 13:57:38
- Crumber nunching (Coronavirus) - Winged Eel Creosote, Sep 7, 13:05:34
  - That’s NumberWang! (n/m) (Coronavirus) - essexcanaryOTBC, Sep 7, 13:30:09
  - chronic hypochondria (n/m) (Coronavirus) - CWC, Sep 7, 13:28:38
    - There's a lot of it about (Coronavirus) - Winged Eel Creosote, Sep 7, 13:32:54
      - There's a lot of routine testing of people such as medical staff going on (Coronavirus) - Basil Wrathbone, Sep 7, 14:18:24
- depends (Coronavirus) - ghostof barry butler, Sep 7, 12:58:47
  - Noticeable leap in numbers yesterday with no additional testing (n/m) (Coronavirus) - loz, Sep 7, 13:00:05
    - Depends if it flows through to hospitalisations and deaths (Coronavirus) - Jim, Sep 7, 13:16:07
      - Don't forget the new death cut-off of 28 days (Coronavirus) - jamesward, Sep 7, 17:27:57
        
        Take a step back and look at the wider consequences (Coronavirus) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Sep 7, 17:32:42
        
        We aren’t in fucking lockdown (n/m) (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, Sep 7, 21:36:53
      - I agree - but would add one more point to your list (Coronavirus) - Timmy_Goat, Sep 7, 13:47:50
        
        Last NICE guidance on that, after they did a review of the evidence: (Coronavirus) - jampersands, Sep 7, 13:56:42
        
        Well,because it's your immune system and if your immune (Coronavirus) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Sep 7, 16:37:57
        
        That went well. (n/m) (Coronavirus) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Sep 7, 16:38:40
        
        more effective than these bloody masks (Coronavirus) - CWC, Sep 7, 14:16:53
        
        I am aware of that guidance (Coronavirus) - Timmy_Goat, Sep 7, 14:12:52
        
        Yeah but (Coronavirus) - Winged Eel Creosote, Sep 7, 13:53:20
      - Seems to be very hard to get a test at the moment... (Coronavirus) - loz, Sep 7, 13:30:24
        
        That's another thing I don't understand (Coronavirus) - Winged Eel Creosote, Sep 7, 13:35:16
        
        When vectors can be asymptomatic (Coronavirus) - Cardiff Canary, Sep 7, 15:34:41

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