https://www.newsmax.com/us/vitamind-immune-system-health/2020/09/27/id/989071/

Keeping your body's immune system running at full strength is imperative amid the global coronavirus pandemic, and vitamin D is an essential piece of that, according to Boston University researchers.

Among 235 admitted to the hospital with COVID-19, patients older than 40 were 51.5% less likely to die if they had at least 30 ng/mL of vitamin D in their system, according to their study.

"This study provides direct evidence that vitamin D sufficiency can reduce the complications, including the cytokine storm (release of too many proteins into the blood too quickly) and ultimately death from COVID-19," BU Dr. Michael F. Holick, the study's lead author, said, Forbes reported.

Holick also noted in another study, vitamin D not only provides better outcomes for those hospitalized with COVID-19, he also reported it can help patients avoid COVID-19 infection altogether – as the risk of catching the virus is reduced by 54% for those with adequate vitamin D levels – per the report.

"Because vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency is so widespread in children and adults in the United States and worldwide, especially in winter months, it is prudent for everyone to take a vitamin D supplement to reduce risk of being infected and having complications from COVID-19," Holick told Forbes.

This report highlights a notable change in advice from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

"If you are deficient in vitamin D, that does have an impact on your susceptibility to infection – so I would not mind recommending, and I do it myself, taking vitamin D supplements," Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sept. 10, per Forbes.

That came after the NIH issued a statement reading: "There are insufficient data to recommend either for or against the use of vitamin D for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19."

Democrats have rebuked President Donald Trump for allegedly rejecting science, but even the scientists have been skeptical of the science as it relates to the global coronavirus pandemic.

https://meaninginhistory.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-barnett-302.html?m=1#more

The Barnett 302

I'll do this in a sort of impressionistic way–concentrating on overall impressions taken from the FD-302 of FBI Agent William Barnett. That "302" memorializes the interview of Barnett that was conducted by FBI agents and prosecutors investigating the handling of the Michael Flynn case.

First of all, imagine how Barnett felt going into this interview, and what the circumstances of the interview tell us.

Barnett, a law enforcement official of the federal government, had hired an attorney to be present with him at the interview–even though he was just a witness. He may have been just a witness, but he knew this was a high stakes interview and he couldn't simply trust to his own integrity.

He was interviewed by two FBI agents and two federal prosecutors–one of them Jeffrey Jensen, a USA who had also been an FBI agent. Barnett knew there'd be no BS-ing his way through this interview, and that this interview was supremely important from the government's standpoint.

Right at the start we learn something very important. Barnett had worked on both the Flynn and Manafort investigations. In fact, he was the case agent for both investigations at the FBI's Washington Field Office (WFO), having been specifically recruited to join the Crossfire Hurricane (CH) team by SSA Joe Pientka. He continued working those cases once Team Mueller was set up. That means that he would have interacted regularly with the prosecutors who led those investigations for Team Mueller. We learn later that Barnett is able to recall the attitudes and words of Jeannie Rhee and Andrew Weissmann, so it's a good guess that Durham/Jensen are very much interested in those two Team Mueller alumni.

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