Vitamin D: Both a Supplement and a COVID-19 Treatment?
Blades, R. (2020). Vitamin D: Both a Supplement and a COVID-19 Treatment? Healthing, https://www.healthing.ca/diseases-and-conditions/coronavirus/vitamin-d-a-supplement-and-covid-19-treatment.
“Earlier this year in the spring, 76 Spanish COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory infection were hospitalized. Dr. Jose Manuel Quesada-Gomez gave 50 of them high doses of calcifediol — the equivalent of swallowing two fistfuls of fast-acting vitamin D supplement pills. Only two per cent of the vitamin D group ended up in the intensive care unit and none died, while 50 per cent of the other group required advanced care and two died. These are remarkable results — almost too good to be true…”