I asked my wife about Vitamin D. She wasn't aware of the study showing the risk reduction with above recommended levels of Vit D. She will look into it. She said that many if not most of her patients are Vit D deficient which is why she has many patients on Vit D. Also most are elderly so are prone to osteoporosis. She also noted that D is a fat-soluble vitamin so you have to be careful of not taking too much Vit D.
I am sorry for you, then!
You as an individual may very well benefit from vitamin D supplementation.
Yes, I have had patients who are like you and they have seriously low vitamin D levels. I have had to use crazy amounts of Vitamin D supplements to get their levels into the normal range.
And absolutely vitamin D is involved in more than bone health. The question is a population based one. Who should be supplemented? Everyone? or just those who are found to have low levels. And what should be the target.
The incidence of vitamin D deficiency is likely to be higher in Finland than many other places due to latitude alone. Also, from what I read, they talked about fortifying milk with vitamin D as if it were something new. We've done that for a long time here.
Anyway, from the perspective of a population and how to address low levels, it's different in Finland than in the continental US. That's my point.
You raise a good point. Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin. So, it begs the question: do blood (mostly water) levels accurately reflect vitamin D sufficiency or deficiency?
Yeah, as usual this guy is doing his best to track. No real predictions at the moment. Hopefully just a small “hot vaxxed summer” bump.
This NY Times editorial was published on March 17, 2020. Early on, and pretty much nailed it.And they said you had to have your mask professionally fitted and “take a course.”
Masks were in short supply. The number of people in the general public at that time who had COVID were few at first. Health care workers were more likely to be exposed than the guy at the gas station. Plus, the HCW was needed to take care of the sick people.This NY Times editorial was published on March 17, 2020. Early on, and pretty much nailed it.
Opinion | Why Telling People They Don’t Need Masks Backfired (Published 2020)
To help manage the shortage, the authorities sent a message that made them untrustworthy.www.nytimes.com
First, many health experts, including the surgeon general of the United States, told the public simultaneously that masks weren’t necessary for protecting the general public and that health care workers needed the dwindling supply. This contradiction confuses an ordinary listener. How do these masks magically protect the wearers only and only if they work in a particular field?
No, there wasn't, but lying about the efficacy of masks destroyed the credibility of officials that was sorely needed later. Mistrust of public health played a leading role in many unnecessary deaths later in the pandemic. The Deep State (if it existed) could not have better executed a plan to make everyone sick.
In March of 2020 my daughter was beginning a 1 month required nursing internship at a hospital in Cologne Germany, required for her first year of medical school in Germany. While COVID was just becoming a thing here it was already pretty well on its way to being epidemic in Europe though still not much was known about it. In the German hospital she was at the masks (and gowns and gloves, commonly called PPE) which were normally left outside of infectious patient rooms were all being stolen so they had to put them behind the nursing station desk.This NY Times editorial was published on March 17, 2020. Early on, and pretty much nailed it.
Opinion | Why Telling People They Don’t Need Masks Backfired (Published 2020)
To help manage the shortage, the authorities sent a message that made them untrustworthy.
First, many health experts, including the surgeon general of the United States, told the public simultaneously that masks weren’t necessary for protecting the general public and that health care workers needed the dwindling supply. This contradiction confuses an ordinary listener. How do these masks magically protect the wearers only and only if they work in a particular field?
I don't recall any lying about the efficacy of masks. Perhaps you can help me recollect. We did save them and recycle them while they were in terribly short supply. Nobody in health care was confused about that at the time. Don't know where you got your information.
"Distrust" was mostly along political lines, as was subsequent behavior. Nothing the health officials could have said would have changed that. Early on the thought was that covid would not be easily distributed by air so only people in close proximity to sick individuals needed to mask up, i.e. health care providers. This was unfortunately based on outdated particle research that hadn't been questioned in almost a hundred years.
Try this:
And then this:Try this:
'Seriously people - STOP BUYING MASKS!': Surgeon general says they won't protect from coronavirus
The surgeon general has a message for people who want to run out and stockpile masks to combat the coronavirus...www.jacksonville.com
The Surgeon General was presumably "in health care at the time." I got my information from reputable journalistic sources like NY Times, WSJ, USA Today, etc.
Yes, as I said, in March 2020 the epidemic was such that the general public had little benefit from masks. The article says that they were important for HCWs. Did you think he meant that viruses checked your professional credentials and chose to avoid you if you were a HCW wearing a mask but masks didn't work for Joe Blow?Try this:
'Seriously people - STOP BUYING MASKS!': Surgeon general says they won't protect from coronavirus
The surgeon general has a message for people who want to run out and stockpile masks to combat the coronavirus...www.jacksonville.com
