Navajo Nation and Other Native American Reservations Hit Hard by Covid-19

Post by teknopaul » Thu, May 28, 2020, 12:09 AM UTC

dehrmann wrote: post #41

BurningFrog wrote: post #5

PSA: Vitamin D deficiency is a strong factor, not for getting Covid-19, but for bad outcomes. It's especially common for people with dark skin, since that blocks the ability of producing Vitamin D from sunlight. If that's part of what's happening to the Navajo, I don't know, but you should probably eat Vitamin D pills, especially during this indoor lockdown, and if if you have dark skin.

> It's especially common for people with dark skin The Navajo have been in the general area (the US forcibly moved them, but the latitudes are similar) of where they are now for a long time. Their skin tone should be well-adapted to the region, unless they're not going outside.

Only 600 years per wikipedia.

Post by pmachinery » Thu, May 28, 2020, 7:04 AM UTC

teknopaul wrote: post #50

pmachinery wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He wasn't saying high intakes of vitamin D would prevent or treat COVID-19, he was alluding to a belief that vitamin D deficiency reduces the chances of recovery from COVID-19. Obviously to correct vitamin D deficiency people require high intakes. It's not good for people to be just advising "eat vitamin D" though. People should consult a doctor to determine a) to what extent they are deficient (or not), and b) that…

Disagree. Its your own job to get all the vitamins you need each day. "Get outside more", is temporarily bad advice: "eat vit-d instead" is temporarily good advice. Your doctor has more important things to do.

I'd love to hear all the more important things a doctor has to do than check whether someone needs a potentially dangerous supplement and that it isn't going to harm them.

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