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The link between Vitamin D, COVID and seasonal depression
Scientists have been lately been spending their time and money investigating the relationship between COVID-19 and a Vitamin D deficiency. They are looking into whether or not a Vitamin D deficiency has an impact on being infected with coronavirus in the first place, and/or the severity of the symptoms in COVID-19 infected patients. A recent study found that 80% of COVID-19 patients at a hospital in Spain also had a Vitamin D deficiency (1) and researchers at the University of Chicago claim that a Vitamin D deficiency may raise the risk of getting COVID-19 (2). The jury is still out on the exact relationship between Vitamin D deficiency and COVID, but…