OPKO patented a slow release form of Vitamin D to treat Chronic Kidney Disease in 2014
It is extremely expensive, and now the company hopes to show that it fight COVID-19
Standard, far lower cost, over-the-counter vitamin D would be better, but Vitamin D would not profit the company
Note: The trial is comparing the product against a placebo, not against vitamin D
__OPKO Health Completes Enrollment in Phase 2 Trial Evaluating RAYALDEE as a Treatment for Symptomatic COVID-19 Outpatients Yahoo Finance Aug 30. 2021
Vitamin D Life
Calcidiol
- Time-release form of active vitamin D granted a patent for chronic kidney disease – July 2014
- Modified release active Vitamin D (calcifediol ) for those with poor Kidney function (USD 10,000 per year) – April 2015
- Calcifediol (Calcidiol) is far less cost-effective and available than Vitamin D – RCT June 2021
- Response to weekly Calcifediol in 4 months - RCT Aug 2022
- Weekly response to semi-activated vitamin D slightly better than standard – RCT Nov 2019
Other
COVID-19 treated by Vitamin D - studies, reports, videos
- As of Oct 8, 2021, the page had: 34 trials, 6 trial results, 25 meta-analyses and reviews, 64 observations, 35 recommendations, 55 associations, 89 speculations, 48 videos see related: Governments, HealthProblems, Hospitals, Dark Skins, 26 risk factors are ALL associated with low Vit D, Recent Virus pages Fight COVID-19 with 50K Vit D weekly Vaccines
Intervention and virus studies:
- Vitamin D trial for COVID-19 – using their patented slow-release form – Aug 2021
- COVID-19 mortality reduced 4X (chart looks like 2X) by large, infrequent doses of Vitamin D in France – July 2021
- 5,000 U daily raised Vitamin D a bit and helped COVID-19 a bit – RCT June 2021
- COVID-19 inflammation extinguished by 60,000 IU of vitamin D nanoemulsion daily for a week – RCT May 2021
- Better response to shingles virus test after Vitamin D raised above 40 ng – Jan 2021
- Kidney patients who happened to be getting high-dose Calcitriol were 9X less likely to die of COVID-19 - April 6, 2021
- 5X less likely to enter ICU with COVID-19 if get Calcifediol (semi-activated vitamin D) - RCT Feb 19, 2021
- calcifediol rct
- Swine flu not prevented by 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily (the upper limit at the time) – RCT 2014
- Vaccine antibody generation not change with Vitamin D – 21 ng or 44 ng – RCT Feb 2019
- Dengue virus prevented by a small amount of Vitamin D – RCT Nov 2019
- Half the risk of Influenza -A in infants taking 1200 IU of vitamin D for 4 months – RCT Jan 2018
- Chikungunya virus arthritis pain reduced by weekly 60,000 IU vitamin D – Sept 2016
- Many Infectious diseases (virus) treated and prevented by Vitamin D – review July 2009
- Influenza prevented by 40 ng levels or treated with vitamin D hammer (50,000 IU) – June 2015
- Infection fighting ability increased with 5,000 IU Vitamin D daily – April 2015
- Vitamin D prevents Hepatitis-C and helps treat it (many studies)
- Malaria in mice brains, and associated inflammation, prevented by Vitamin D intervention – July 2014
- Influenza A: 5X reduction in first month (only) with 2,000 IU of vitamin D– RCT July 2014