COVID-19 Mortality Risk Correlates Inversely with Vitamin D3 Status…

X-axis: amount of Vitamin D3 in the blood
Y-axis: death rate index. Click to enlarge 
A correlation, but TBF, eyeballing, looks weak

From the Medical Health Journal site MDPI, academic but very readable. 

TL;DR: The higher your Vitamin D3 levels, the lower your mortality from Covid. And in this case correlation is causation.

I got to this via the video by Dr John Campbell. He posted on 18 November, after which views of the MDPI paper shot up.  His vid is viewed 1.3 million times. Up to his time of posting, the MDPI article had had virtually no views; ignored, iow. Now getting some traction but should have had a lot more. 

As Dr John says it would be very easy for the government (eg, NHS in UK or CDC/AIH in US) to do an observational study of the effects of vitamin D3 on Covid, to confirm these findings. He finds it inexplicable why we haven’t yet done so. 

I recall that one of the doctors who was quoted in a BBC article debunking Ivermectin said those pushing Ivermectin should  be tried for “crimes against humanity”(!) He added in a later tweet “also those pushing vitamin D”. (ADDED: Video debunking the BBC article). Yet the above MDPI academic article shows, and provides an easily-testable hypothesis, that deaths due to Covid decline with higher levels of vitamin D3 in the blood. In this case correlation really is causation, as the authors show. The BBC has done nothing in follow up or to distance themselves from a truly horrid point of view, intolerant, wrong (probably) and harmful. If the shoe were on the other foot there would be cries of  “your denial of science is killing people”. Shame. (Btw, the Ivermectin debate [is it useful or is it useless] is far from settled).

ADDED: Snip from the MDPI paper’s Conclusion (my emphases):

Vaccination is and will be an important keystone in our fight against SARS-CoV-2. However, current data clearly show that vaccination alone cannot prevent all SARS-CoV-2 infections and dissemination of the virus. This scenario possibly will become much worse in the case of new virus mutations that are not very susceptible to the current vaccines or even not sensitive to any vaccine. [PF: Written pre-Omicron. Perceptive!]

Therefore, based on our data, the authors strongly recommend combining vaccination with routine strengthening of the immune system of the whole population by vitamin D3 supplementation to consistently guarantee blood levels above 50 ng/mL (125 nmol/L). From a medical point of view, this will not only save many lives but also increase the success of vaccination. From a social and political point of view, it will lower the need for further contact restrictions and lockdowns. From an economical point of view, it will save billions of dollars worldwide, as vitamin D3 is inexpensive and—together with vaccines—provides a good opportunity to get the spread of SARS-CoV-2 under control.