Public health officials in the United Kingdom have launched an urgent review into the potential role of vitamin D in protecting people against the coronavirus.
People with darker skin may need more sunlight to get the recommended levels of vitamin D than people with lighter skin, prompting the theory that Black and Asian British citizens may not be getting enough vitamin D, in turn making them more vulnerable to COVID-19.However, experts caution that this is just a theory, and would need to be supported with high-quality evidence, preferably from a randomized clinical trial designed specifically to answer this question.
"More densely populated housing, higher prevalence of diabetes and hypertension, more likely to use public transport and also potentially low Vitamin D levels," Hill said."I doubt that Vitamin D deficiency is the only reason for the higher risks of COVID-19 infection." "There are a lot of diseases in which worse outcomes are associated with vitamin D deficiency, yet almost none has shown that restoring vitamin D leads to improved outcomes," del Rio said. "Bottom line, association does not mean causation," he said.MORE: COVID-19 outbreak exposes generations-old racial and economic divide in New York City
Such findings"do not support ... that vitamin D concentration may explain ethnic differences in COVID-19 infection,"that uses data from the UK Biobank, a resource that collects health data on half a million people from the UK. People wait for a distribution of masks and food from the Rev. Al Sharpton in the Harlem neighborhood of New York, April 18, 2020, after a new state mandate was issued requiring residents to wear face coverings in public due to COVID-19.
"Right now, no one can answer the question: Does vitamin D prevent severe COVID-19?" said Dr. Vincent Racaniello, of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia University, in New York.
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