NEW EXPLAINER ATTACHED: why you should ignore people or articles saying there’s insufficient evidence of the link between Covid and Vitamin D and start taking 4000 IU (100 micrograms) / day NOW*. That’s 10x the RDA. Nothing to lose (except a few pennies) and everything to gain.
*4000 IU / day for healthy adults with no contraindications (you’d probs already know if you have any). Some experts recommend taking 10,000 IU / day for few weeks to help build up levels. Liquid form best as it’s oil-soluble. Older kids 2000 IU / day, younger ones 1000 IU / day
“Up to 80% of people admitted to hospital with Covid-19 are deficient in vitamin D, which compares to a rate of 25% in the population as a whole. There is increasing concern this isn’t been treated seriously or given the priority it should by governments.” independent.co.uk/independentpre…
The government has been dragging its feet and not listening to experts begging them to recommend high doses of Vit D that could have prevented thousands of deaths from Covid. Please take 4000 IU (100 micrograms) / day* (10x the RDA) and tell everyone. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…
And another article on how the government should be shouting about Vitamin D and Covid prevention: standard.co.uk/comment/vitami… 4,000 IU / day is the required dose. It’s perfectly safe for healthy adults.
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Concerned re the new vaccine strategies? Worried that delaying the second dose is a bad idea or that it might make the virus resistant? Confused re mix and match vaccines? I’ve compiled this short explainer, pls read and share. TL/DR; on balance, nothing to be concerned about 1/2
Explanations are attached to my first tweet above. Attached to this tweet is a fuller explanation as to why the virus is very unlikely to get “resistant” to the vaccine if the second dose is delayed 2/2
I’ve been asked for more info re the Vitamin D advice. Here’s a tweet I sent a few weeks ago with lots of info about it. To date, the open letter has now been signed by more than 170 top experts, not just the 66 we had when I first tweeted this.
IMPORTANT: Do not be taken in by reports / videos of empty hospital beds claiming the NHS crisis is being exaggerated. Of course there are empty wards! Covid wards and ICUs are OVERFLOWING so all available staff and resources from OTHER wards have been diverted there. 1/4
Routine operations, treatments and appointments have been cancelled and many non-Covid wards have had to shut down entirely. That’s the whole point. And the only reason the Nightingale hospitals are empty is that there’s simply not enough staff to open them. 2/4
The NHS is on the verge of collapse. There’s not enough ITU beds and not enough oxygen for Covid patients who can’t breathe. Ambulances with Covid-sick patients inside are queuing outside A+E departments. Doctors are having to choose who to treat. Who to save. 3/4
“Act as if everyone you know has just tested positive and you need to avoid them like - quite literally - the plague.”
Attached are screen shots of the full quote from a trusted doctor source in North London, reporting on the current situation there. Please share widely.
The doctor who wrote this is my friend. I know him. He wrote these words late at night to his family. I’m sharing them so his words get seen by more people in order to save lives. If he gives his name he may lose his job. It’s happened before to NHS workers who speak out.
NHS workers have been told not to speak out. It’s a breech of internal policy to leak conditions without communication department approval. There are careful trajectories for whistle blowers.