Within the last couple of weeks, I saw a news item that vitamin D-3 helps keep COVID-19 patients out of the hospital. https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/88456 However, there is such a thing as "too much" Vitamin-D. Also, search 'covid ivermectin' and 'covid famotidine'. Jim Bell On Wednesday, September 16, 2020, 04:47:56 AM PDT, Peter Fairbrother <peter@tsto.co.uk> wrote: On 28/02/2020 22:09, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
Best data I have seen for COVID-19 mortality is from 50 in 10,000 or 0.5% for the young-and-fit to 1,500 in 10,000 or 15% for those over 75 and those with pre-existing heart disease. Diabetes and COPD are also bad co-morbidities to have, at about 10% mortality.
COVID-19 seems to kill mostly the elderly, but not nearly as exclusively as 'flu. The young-and-fit are also very much at risk.
This would give an overall mortality rate of about 150-200 per 10,000 or 1.5%-2%. With an estimated 65% of the US population catching COVID-19 that would be 4 million US deaths: much worse than AIDS, and potentially the worst pandemic since the Plague.
Peter Fairbrother