Nearly three million clinically extremely vulnerable Britons - including cancer and severe kidney disease patients - were offered a fourth-month course of the vitamin last winter.
US Representative Glenn Grothman (R-WI) has introduced a House Resolution to recognize the significant role vitamin D may play in the fight against COVID-19.
Citing an article on NutraIngredients, a press release from Grothman’s office noted that in December, 120 international health, science and medical experts sent an open letter to world governments stating that there is clear evidence that vitamin D reduces COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths.
Grothman, who is serving his fourth term representing Wisconsin’s 6th Congressional District, also pointed to a host of studies from Northwestern University, University of Chicago, and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, that reported strong correlations between vitamin D deficiencies and negative COVID-19 patient outcomes, including severe symptoms, hospital stays, ICU admittance, and overall mortality rate.
In an open letter being sent to world governments today (21st December), 120 health, science and medical experts from the UK, US, and Europe say there is clear scientific evidence that vitamin D reduces Covid-19 infections, hospitalisations, and deaths.
In the letter (signed by 120 on Friday 18th but rapidly increasing) scientists are calling for immediate, widespread, increased vitamin D intake to 4,000 International Units (IU) per day (or at least 2,000) for healthy adults.
This comes just days after the UK government s health bodies SACN and NICE, denied there is enough evidence to support increasing vitamin D intake for COVID-19 specifically.
The scientists involved in the open letter say that global patterns and risk factors for the Covid-19 pandemic and Vitamin D deficiency match precisely due to the impact on immune function. They say that research shows that low vitamin D levels markedly increase the likelihood of COVID-19 inf