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Yeah, I wouldn't plan to go anywhere out of the country without covid insurance for the foreseeable future as long as we are requiring negative tests to return home. It is just interesting to me that with the research on the value of elevated Vitamin D levels relative to covid severity that we force people to stay indoors for the duration of most quarantines.
Yeah, the Israeli one was the most recent, and I think largest of the ones that seem fairly definitive. Pre-infection 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 levels and association with severity of COVID-19 illness But there were several less definitive early on that suggested a correlation between low Vit D and more severe Covid progression.
Yeah, I think there is still a lot to be learned. Is it that people with higher vit D are more likely to be active and therefore healthier? Who knows? I already take 4000 IU per day because I have MS. But I do find it interesting how much the practice of quarantines have been enforced as indoor only.
Now all they have to do is to change the exit requirement from infection and isolation to a negative antigen test or set number of days after initial diagnosis or absence of symptoms. A PCR test can be positive for weeks to months after initial infection, even though the patient can be recovered and non infectious. More clarity needed on PCR testing for release from isolation.
