Vitamin D And COVID-19 Misinformation | Clinical Health Promotion


At the end of June 2020, various news outlets reported that taking vitamin D has no benefit for COVID-19. To see this for yourself, do an internet search with the following phrase: no evidence to support vitamin D for COVID-19. You will see that multiple articles appear in America and in the UK. The information originated in the National Health Service in the UK from the National Institute for Health Care Excellence.
The study looked at vitamin D status and found no relationship to COVID-19 outcomes. Here is a link to the report.

It was not a supplementation study, although it says the UK government recommends that people take 400 IU of vitamin D per day. This is 10 times less vitamin D than the 4000 IU that are considered to be a physiologic dose by vitamin D researchers. Here is the conclusion in the report itself:

“There is no evidence to support taking vitamin D supplements to specifically prevent or treat COVID-19.”

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