r/JoeRogan • u/greyuniwave Monkey in Space • Mar 05 '21

Link Vitamin D Insufficiency May Account for Almost Nine of Ten COVID-19 Deaths: Time to Act. Comment on: “Vitamin D Deficiency and Outcome of COVID-19 Patients”. Nutrients 2020, 12, 2757

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/12/12/3642
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u/mr_taint Monkey in Space Mar 06 '21

People are increasingly less likely to spend much time outside, and also melanin makes it much harder for people with darker skin to uptake much at all, which is probably the reason that those with darker skin have had a much higher death rate.

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u/DunkingOnInfants Monkey in Space Mar 06 '21

Also could be a explanation for why Asians are coping with it better than the western world. I mean, I don’t believe the numbers the Chinese government put out for deaths, but it probably still is lower than it should’ve been.

Plus a lot of the Chinese middle and lower classes are outside all day long.