News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Real 'pandemic preparedness' doesn't mean obsessive surveillance before locking down and rolling out a vaccine. It means helping people build healthy and resilient immune systems in their daily lives, says Dr David Bell.
Vitamin D cuts the risk of death from COVID-19 by 51% and the risk of ICU admission by 72%, a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials has found. But it's still not recommended for use in the U.K. Why not?
There's a mountain of evidence that vitamin D helps combat COVID-19, but a new randomised controlled trial claims to find it doesn't work. Here's what they did wrong.
Researchers in Israel have found that Vitamin D deficiency increases the risk of a hospitalised Covid patient dying more than seven-fold, suggesting that Vitamin D supplements may protect against COVID-19.
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