If US state governments or Medicare mandated Vitamin D supplements in nursing homes, up to 100,000 flu deaths a year could be prevented.
Cost is 3 cents per day per grandma.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8834307/Doctors-trial-vitamin-D-protect-people-Covid-19.html
UK doctors will finally trial whether vitamin D can protect people from Covid-19 after months of mounting evidence the cheap supplement could be a life-saver
Queen Mary University is recruiting 5,000 people for its Vitamin D study
Volunteers will be given either 3,200, 800 or 400 international units a day
Government says 400 a day is enough, but taking more won't have bad impacts
A mountain of studies have found an overwhelming amount of people who test positive for Covid-19 do not have enough vitamin D in their bodies and the sickest of patients are often deficient.
Britons are most at risk of being vitamin D deficient between October and April when sunlight levels are too low for the body to make the vitamin — with those with darker skin at even higher risk.
Around two in five Brits are deficient during the winter, when respiratory infections are most common. In the US, at least two in five citizens also lack sufficient levels of the vitamin.
It has led to calls for doctors to dish out cheap vitamin D supplements — which cost as little as 3p a day and have no dangerous side effects — to fight the disease, rather than waiting for a vaccine which may never be found.
It comes as researchers from University of Brighton have today called for care home residents to be given the 'sunshine vitamin'.
(it’s radiation poisoning)