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UK Government Backs Vitamin D COVID Benefits With Supplement Handout

 
• By Tom Gallen

By handing out free supplements to the clinically vulnerable, the UK government is effectively endorsing the use of vitamin D to reduce the risk and/or severity of COVID-19, although it says more research is needed.

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People living in England at high risk of severe COVID-19 will be given free vitamin D supplements as part of a new UK government initiative. With the move the government is effectively endorsing vitamin D supplementation for reducing the risk and/or severity of COVID-19, although it says more research is needed.

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