Updated by Katherine Pardo BSc (Hons), Dip ION on 13th January 2021 (source >)
Due to the “overwhelming” data surrounding the importance of vitamin D status in the risk for the development and progression of COVID-19, increasing pressure is mounting from doctors and health researchers for governments and health policy makers to recommend vitamin D daily dosing at higher levels. Read more
There is a constantly growing amount of research which suggests that a lack of vitamin D greatly contributes to the weakness of the immune system and its inability to overcome viral infections including Covid-19.
– For instance, according to the new medical research by I. Pugach and S. Pugach, there is a “Strong Correlation Between Prevalence of Severe Vitamin D Deficiency and Population Mortality Rate from COVID-19 in Europe (>).
Obviously in any cloudy country, such as England, almost every person is deficient in vitamin D. But the situation is not much better also in hot and sunny regions since people living there do not expose their bodies to the sun on a regular basis. In India, for instance, 80% of people are deficient in vitamin D!
