A new peer-reviewed Israeli study give more support to the conclusion that Vitamin D deficiency is linked to more severe, more deadly Covid outcomes. What’s different about this new study is that it compared PRE-infection Vitamin D levels to outcomes. Most of the previous studies measured patients’ D levels AFTER they’d been infected. Somehow the researchers found people who’d had their D levels measured before they caught the virus.

The researchers found people who are vitamin D deficient are 14 times more likely to have severe Covid-19 and to die from the disease. Most significantly, mortality among patients with sufficient vitamin D levels was 2.3 percent, compared to 25.6 percent in those who were in the vitamin D deficient group. Now I’m not a doctor, unlike Dr. Sanjay Gupta, but I think it’s fair to strongly suggest Vitamin D supplementation to anyone who hasn’t caught the virus yet, right Sanjay?

The study considered less than 20 ng/mL to be “deficient,” and more than 40 ng/mL to be normal and was published in PLOS One titled “Pre-infection 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 levels and association with severity of COVID-19 illness.”

Keep in mind that in N 1.0 this study would never have seen the light of day and if it had somehow done so, it would have been discredited by every “talking head”, my how times have changed during N 2.0!