From the "An Apple a Day" Department

I thought this might interest to folks here -- and elsewhere, for that matter.   Even if it turns out the results aren't substantive, it seems positive, interesting news that has gotten zero attention on TV – for something SO easy with zero downside.  And unlike many stories we've seen about “benefits,” this comes from a highly-respectable source, Trinity College in Dublin.  And something that’s part of an absolutely normal regimen.

It came from an article I read yesterday yesterday in Science Daily (and when doing a search to follow-up for more, it’s been covered in a lot of publications).  The report is that taking Vitamin D appears to have some benefits in treating the coronavirus.  It isn’t confirmed in tests, but the researchers at Trinity College say there’s is a great deal of evidence pointing to it.  Not in terms of being a cure, though beneficial.  They recommend 400 IU a day – and most, basic, one-a-day multi-vitamin tablets provide 700 IU.  This may have no benefit, of course, but then since all one is doing is taking a normal multi-vitamin there would seem to have quite literally no downside.  Unlike...well, you know.

What surprises me is that this has gotten no coverage at all on TV, though since it’s a very new story it might take a few days.  I would think they’ll start mentioning it eventually.

Here’s the opening of the article and a jump to a later paragraph on some conclusions --

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin are calling on the government in Ireland to change recommendations for vitamin D supplements.A new publication from Dr Eamon Laird and Professor Rose Anne Kenny, School of Medicine, and the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), in collaboration with Professor Jon Rhodes at University of Liverpool, highlights the association between vitamin D levels and mortality from COVID-19.The authors of the article, just published in the Irish Medical Journal, analysed all European adult population studies, completed since 1999, which measured vitamin D and compared vitamin D and death rates from COVID-19..…The authors propose that, whereas optimising vitamin D levels will certainly benefit bone and muscle health, the data suggests that it is also likely to reduce serious COVID-19 complications. This may be because vitamin D is important in regulation and suppression of the inflammatory cytokine response, which causes the severe consequences of COVID-19 and 'acute respiratory distress syndrome' associated with ventilation and death.​

You can read the full article here, and of course can do a search for others.