Governments and other groups are starting to use vitamin D to fight COVID-19

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Groups

United Kingdom

• Covid: UK government requests guidance on vitamin D use TheGuradian Nov 14
• Vitamin D to be delivered to millions of vulnerable people to help protect them from Covid TheTelegraph Nov 7
  • "Ministers draw up plans for four-month supplies to go to care home residents and clinically extremely vulnerable people in England"
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• Boris Johnson set to follow Nicola Sturgeon's policy on free vitamin D supplies The National Nov 2
• Two million English people will receive vitamin D from the authorities In German Nov 13, behind paywall

French Academy

• French National Academy recommended 100,000 IU of Vitamin D to elderly to fight COVID-19 - May 2020
  • "...loading dose of 50,000 to 100,000 IU in case of deficiency"
    • Note by Vitamin D Life - this should be given monthly. The benefits of a single dose disappear in about 2 months

Spain - Andelusia

• Health will treat elderly in nursing homes with Calcifediol to mitigate the effects of Covid In Spanish, Nov 10
  • Recommends "use of Calcifediol in elderly residents in social health centers"
  • based on results of trial 9 weeks before COVID-19 defeated by calcifediol form of Vitamin D in Spain - pilot RCT Aug 29, 2020

United States
   Nebraska

• That Vitamin D level needs to be up in the normal range even before you come into the hospital. So it's something that they're now saying it's best you use right now" Nebraska Chief Medical Officer - Nov 17

India

• ExpertGroup in India proposing raising Vitamin D RDA from 400 IU to 4,000 IU to fight COVID-19 Nov 17, 2020
  • Sandeep Gupta, chief founder and director of Expert Nutraceutical Advocacy Council of India

Augmented from Gordon Shotwell Nov 2020

• Israel started recommending vitamin D in October 2020.
  • After the Merzon study Vitamin D flew off of the shelves
• Slovenia has begun administering vitamin D to residents of nursing homes and health care workers.
• The French National Academy of Medicine recommends that people over 60 be tested for vitamin D deficiency and given a bolus dose of 50,000 to 100,000 IU. It further recommends that all Covid positive patients take 800 to 1000 IU a day upon diagnosis.
• A Swiss expert panel recommends that people supplement with 2,000 IU of vitamin D per day.
• New Zealand provides 50,000 IU monthly vitamin D supplementation to all aged care residents.
• The Scottish government will provide vulnerable populations with vitamin D supplements.

Doctors

• Many doctors believe that high dose vitamin D can fight COVID-19 – BMJ April 2020

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COVID-19 treated by Vitamin D - studies, reports, videos

Contents as of Nov 24:

• 36 trials, 4 trial results, 32 observations, 14 recommendations, 35 associations, 78 speculations, 26 videos

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66% of the COVID-19 Clinical trials use >100,000 IU in first week

Highlighted trials have reported

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Fortify your immune system quickly by taking your D monthly in a single day

Examples:

Daily recommended	Instead take once a month
2,000 IU	60,000 IU
4,000 IU	120,000 IU

• Better than Daily especially if want to improve immune system quickly: colds, flu, COVID-19
• Loading dose of vitamin D then monthly maintenance is the most popular – Nov 2018
• Vitamin D could be restored in 60 days (actually much faster) – June 2018
• Healthy in Seven Days - Loading dose of Vitamin D – book 2014
• Vitamin D every 25 days may be BETTER than daily – RCT May 2018
• 2X fewer COVID-19 deaths observed if infrequent vitamin D (2X more deaths if daily dose) – ClinicalTrial Oct 20, 2020
• 60,000 IU dose of VItamin D (weekly, monthly) is popular in India
• Overview Loading of vitamin D shows the response to a single dose
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• Not much decrease with monthly dosing if <30 ng

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