Dr. Daniel McCartney:

The public health authorities took evidence from a smaller study in Córdoba, Spain, which has been published. Córdoba is in Andalusia. It was a small study of 76 Covid-19 patients. The patients were divided in a 2:1 ratio, such that 50 of the 76 patients coming into hospital received vitamin D in an activated form, that is, a reasonably high dose quite early in their admission on days 1, 3 and 7. The other 26 patients received standard care but no vitamin D. The study followed the patients over the course of their admission. Of the 50 who received vitamin D, just one person, or 2% ended up in ICU. Of the 26 who did not receive vitamin D, 13 ended up in ICU and, unfortunately, two of them died. There was a huge difference in terms of ICU admission, which translated to a 30 to 35-fold difference statistically in the likelihood of ending up in ICU. The public health-----