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It’s more likely to kill old and obese people, but there are still plenty of rarer cases of harm to younger fitter people (eg triathletes on oxygen post-infection). It’s not binary.
I'm more concerned about the 30% of Americans that are obese than the 0.1% top athletes, who in rare circumstances are badly affected. Open the gyms to save lives.
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This experiment compares vitamin D to no vitamin D, and doesn't say anything about those drugs statistically.
Then why introduce two unknown variables into the study?
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Is there a scientific classification system for evaluating how light vs. dark a person's skin is? I'd like to know how much my relatively darker skin is preventing vit D uptake / creation in the body
There is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale which I learned about from the apple health app, no idea how widespread it is or how useful it is as a model.
Good on you, Spain. A study like this could never take place in the USA :( Too many powerful people are heavily invested in the belief that there is no treatment for it.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?cond=Covid19&term=&cn...
Can anyone here help demystify how "oral calcifediol (0.532 mg)" maps to an equivalent amount of Vitamin D in the form you can buy in a drugstore?
Non-white skinned people: sunlight may not be enough to increase your vitamin D. https://www.google.com/search?q=dark+skin+vitamin+d+minutes
Greater than 70% of African Americans are suspected to be Vit D deficient. Definitely worth getting tested if you can [1] especially if you live in the more northern latitudes. Doubly so during winter. [1] with the note that generally insurance is a real PITA with vitamin D testing. The trick usually is to list as a diagnosis code a previous history of low vitamin D. Yes it’s like a catch 22. You need prior testing s…
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> My understanding is that it hasn’t been shown for elevators. I think ... Where are you getting this understanding? You are asking for evidence while providing none yourself...
Well the absence of anything is the default, so the burden of proof is on the person making the claim. I had read that somewhere in studying transmissions in NYC where elevators are common. I don’t remember where, it was a while ago.
I'm not sure the concept of "burden of proof" is helpful in a collaborative fact-seeking discussion. It seems more relevant to adversarial debates and trials.
Non-white skinned people: sunlight may not be enough to increase your vitamin D. https://www.google.com/search?q=dark+skin+vitamin+d+minutes
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"Parallel" generally means that different groups of patients receive different treatments. The opposite is a within-patient study, where all patients get all treatments over time (possibly varying the order to prevent order effects). "Open-label" generally means "not blind at all." Basically, the patient knows what treatment is being administered. "Double-masked" is usually synonymous with "double-blind," because "ma…
>"Double-masked" is usually synonymous with "double-blind," because "masking" sounds less violent than "blinding." This is literally the first time I've heard of "double-blind" being interpreted this way.
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It’s more likely to kill old and obese people, but there are still plenty of rarer cases of harm to younger fitter people (eg triathletes on oxygen post-infection). It’s not binary.
I'm more concerned about the 30% of Americans that are obese than the 0.1% top athletes, who in rare circumstances are badly affected. Open the gyms to save lives.
2. A gym seems kind-of a high infection risk. Lots of heavy breathing and sweating, wiping of faces, noses, and mouths, sharing of equipment, locker rooms... probably not the ideal place to welcome anyone, let along the (as you say, high-risk) obese amongst us.
Any chance your irritation at closed gyms is more personal, rather than a caring nature looking out for peoples' weight loss regimes?