This review follows the alarming revelation that 94% of the doctors who have died from COVID 19 in the U.K. were Black, Asian and from other minority ethnic groups. 'These figures are extremely disturbing.'
People with darker skin may need more sunlight to get the recommended levels of vitamin D than people with lighter skin, prompting the theory that Black and Asian British citizens may not be getting enough vitamin D, in turn making them more vulnerable to COVID-19.However, experts caution that this is just a theory, and would need to be supported with high-quality evidence, preferably from a randomized clinical trial designed specifically to answer this question.
"More densely populated housing, higher prevalence of diabetes and hypertension, more likely to use public transport and also potentially low Vitamin D levels," Hill said."I doubt that Vitamin D deficiency is the only reason for the higher risks of COVID-19 infection." "There are a lot of diseases in which worse outcomes are associated with vitamin D deficiency, yet almost none has shown that restoring vitamin D leads to improved outcomes," del Rio said. "Bottom line, association does not mean causation," he said.MORE: COVID-19 outbreak exposes generations-old racial and economic divide in New York City
Such findings"do not support ... that vitamin D concentration may explain ethnic differences in COVID-19 infection,"that uses data from the UK Biobank, a resource that collects health data on half a million people from the UK. People wait for a distribution of masks and food from the Rev. Al Sharpton in the Harlem neighborhood of New York, April 18, 2020, after a new state mandate was issued requiring residents to wear face coverings in public due to COVID-19.
"Right now, no one can answer the question: Does vitamin D prevent severe COVID-19?" said Dr. Vincent Racaniello, of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia University, in New York.
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