{"id":111136,"date":"2021-01-29T16:59:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T23:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=111136"},"modified":"2021-01-29T16:59:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T23:59:56","slug":"fewer-covid-19-deaths-in-those-getting-400000-iu-of-vitamin-d-jan-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/29\/fewer-covid-19-deaths-in-those-getting-400000-iu-of-vitamin-d-jan-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer COVID-19 deaths in those getting 400,000 IU of Vitamin D – Jan 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Myanmar Health<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Informal intervention trial in Myanmar<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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1200 Buddhist monks and nuns in COVID-19 quarantine center were given 2 doses of water containing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • 200,000IU of vitamin D<\/li>
  • 25 mg of zinc<\/li>
  • 1000mg of vitamin C<\/li>
  • 30 billion Probiotics.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Mortality rate is only 0.07%<\/strong>
    The overall mortality rate in the country is steady at 2.1%<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The doctors in the that country (as well as most other countries) do not believe in such large doses of Vitamin D
    The Buddhist monks were not constrained by doctors beliefs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    People in Myanmar are placed in quarantine centers if they test positive for COVID-19
    The Buddhists have their own quarantine center (s?)
    The Vitamin D water was given to every Buddhist in the quarintine center. not just given upon entry to the center
    A total of about 300 people were tested for vitamin D level both before and after.
    The initial level varied: mostly around 12-18ng\/mL
      However, those monks who had gone out for alms (with head, shoulders, and feet exposed to the sun) had ~40ng\/mL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The vitamin D water given was based on a proposal by Vitamin DWiki
    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    To reduce costs, the more expensive ingredients were not included<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Myanmar Health Informal intervention trial in Myanmar 1200 Buddhist monks and nuns in COVID-19 quarantine center were given 2 doses of water containing 200,000IU of vitamin D 25 mg of zinc 1000mg of vitamin C 30 billion Probiotics. Mortality rate is only 0.07%The overall mortality rate in the country is steady at 2.1% The doctors in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category--19-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}