Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

There's some evidence of a modest beneficial effect ...

Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infections: systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data

The big thing is that even if it has just a little effect, it's ridiculously safe. This isn't my phrasing, but it's like getting a lottery ticket for free: What the hell, why not?

 

Out of my domain. Thank you for the information.

I will be interested in the distant years to come to find out, I hope, what natural food(s) or substance(s) would have been most useful in warding off infection.

I've read for instance that cannabis is good and that it's bad.
One of these positions is bullshit. We just don't know which.
"COVID likes healthy lung tissue." Yeah, that wouldn't explain why asthmatics are in a risk pool. Or why children are mostly unaffected.

 

Maybe the Vitamin D has kept my COVID fairly mild. I take a once-a-week Vitamin D pill prescribed by my doctor and have for nearly two years now. I got real low a couple of winters ago because the weather had been crap, and I hadn't been outside much. She put me on that, and I just keep taking it. I'm obviously outside in the sun enough March-November to keep my numbers up, but the winter months are hit and miss. Honestly, I think I pay 17 cents for a 12-week supply, and it seems to keep me in order.

 

I started reading the Vitamin D stuff and promptly hauled my ass to Kroger and got a bottle of pills. With my golf and my sailing it's highly unlikely I'm deficient, but then again ... as re: Vitamin D you really can't be too careful.

I take 1,000 IU a day.

 

This could be bad long term, IMO
COVID's cognitive costs? Some patients' brains may age 10 years

 

HA! I was right in the middle of a nice sip of white zin when I saw this. Well done.

"Eric Stratton, rush chairman, damn glad to meet ya!"

 

That study is ... bad. Just irresponsibly bad science that doesn’t come close to justifying the claim, and putting “may” doesn’t make it ok.

 

UAMS has been pretty spot on with its forecasting of Covid in Arkansas. I sure hope they got this wrong. This shows we have another 12 months of cases higher than we have now.

 

Observational studies aren't "irresponsibly bad" science ... they should just be taken with a substantial amount of caution. It may well be the case that all limitations and cautions are emphasized in the piece in question (which isn't linked). This is definitely some bad science (!!!!!) reporting, though.

 

Difference, distinction, etc.

 

I barely blinked and we are now at 9 million infected with Captain Trumps ... which is more like 90 million infected really.

I hope like hell that if people do lose COVID immunity over time, the second time around is more like what the coronavirus really should be ... a common cold.

Otherwise we'll just keep losing 2% at a shot.