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Vitamin D and immunity

Dr. John Campbell · 1.6M views · 2020-03-09 · 20:21

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Overview

Dr. John Campbell reviews studies on vitamin D and immunity, including research on respiratory infections, during the early COVID-19 period.

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Commenters point to Campbell's channel as a low-tech, content-dense source of pandemic updates and early discussion of vitamin D.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2020–2020

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Medicine & infectious diseaseNutrition & diet science
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gnur · 2020-03 · Recommendation

Anyone that wants to stay up to date with the virus should follow this channel [0] It's from the semi retired Dr. John Campbell, his videos are low tech but high content. I've come to realize it is all our responsibility to make sure the health care professionals can handle this. If we assume this is going to be as big as some predict it will be, we basically cannot escape it, but it is possible to lengthen the time in which most infections well arise, lowering the peak and curve, which will in turn greatly reduce the peak load on healthcare professionals. A 1000 admissions a day might be impossible to handle, but 100 admissions stretched out over 10 days is much more manageable. This is something everyone can help with. Also, take a lot of Vitamin D, it helps with handling the Covid19 and other respiratory tract infections (both viral and bacterial). [1] [0] [LINK] [1] [VIDEO]

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gniv · 2020-06 · Reference

> Was this known early on about COVID? Yes. See for example this video from John Campbell from March 9: [VIDEO]

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fattire · 2020-05 · Reference

Dr. John Campbell, an educator in Northern England who's been doing daily Youtube updates on Covid news since January I believe, has put out a few videos from time to time related to vitamin D: [VIDEO] - A month ago [LINK] - 3 weeks ago [LINK] - 3 days ago He suggests vitamin D deficiency may play a partial role in explaining higher mortality rates among people with darker skin (other important social disparities notwithstanding).

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