Growing data on vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19

AVENTURA, Fla. – Researchers learn more about how vitamin D deficiency can play a role in COVID infections.

A new study has shown that people with serious complications due to COVID and low vitamin D levels appear. Normal vitamin D levels should be around 30 and these people had levels below 20. (The study) when people supplemented their vitamin D, and it is very easy to supplement, they had a better outcome, “said cardiologist Dr. Leonard Pianko.

Pianko said a simple blood test can determine if vitamin D levels are low and need to be increased, either with supplementation or with safe outdoor activities.

Sun exposure naturally increases vitamin D levels.

Pianko said isolation indoors during the pandemic could be a reason why many people have few valuable vitamins.

And while efforts are underway to get people vaccinated against COVID = 19, experts warn that the possible protection is not immediate.

Some health workers reported that he was infected with COVID-19 even after vaccination.

Health officials said it was because the protection against the vaccine could take as long as two weeks to start.

This means that people must continue with safe social removal, wash their hands regularly and use face masks even after they have been vaccinated.