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SvennoJ on 07 May 2020
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John2290 said:

On the issue of darker skinned people being effected more and not because of socio-economic reasons, this old, racist Nazi scumbag has a valid opinion thst is likely closer to reality. 

What a dirty racist, I bet he euthanised as many of his ethnic patients as he could get away with, in his time. Dirty factual nazi.  

Btw here are some facts to back up your vitamin D line of inquiry

https://www.jabfm.org/content/29/2/226
Probable vitamin D deficiency is linked to skin color and weight (over weight is bad as well for vitamin D deficiency)

Peer reviewed, check, however Conflict of interest: TW has an intellectual passion about vitamin D and has an unpaid, volunteer relationship with the Vitamin D Council. The other authors have no conflicts of interest.



And yes, there is perhaps a correlation between Vitamin D and severity of Covid19
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.08.20058578v3

Findings A link between Vit D status and COVID-19 A-CMR in the US, France, and the UK (countries with similar screening status) may exist. Combining COVID-19 patient data and prior work on Vit D and CRP levels, we show that the risk of severe COVID-19 cases among patients with severe Vit D deficiency is 17.3% while the equivalent figure for patients with normal Vit D levels is 14.6% (a reduction of 15.6%). Interpretation Given that CRP is a surrogate marker for severe COVID-19 and is associated with Vit D deficiency, our finding suggests that Vit D may reduce COVID-19 severity by suppressing cytokine storm in COVID-19 patients. Further research is needed to account for other factors through direct measurement of Vit D levels.

No conflicting interests, but not peer reviewed.

Definitely no miracle cure, a small reduction that still needs to be reviewed.