Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 February 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Vitamin D and Covid-19: Covit-D Consortium
Dr. Daniel McCartney:
There are quite large studies from the USA and Israel, in particular, on the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection. A study of 500 patients from Chicago, 71 of whom tested positive for Covid-19, revealed that a person who was deficient in vitamin D was 77% more likely to be SARS-CoV-2 positive. A larger study from the US of 192,000 people-----
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