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Podcast: One Thing Today in Tech
Episode: Vitamin D deficiency linked to Covid-19 severity; Amazon, Nike may bid for Peloton; IIT-GN develops affordable desalination technique
Description: Vitamin D deficiency linked to Covid-19 severity and mortality
There is a correlation between vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 severity and mortality, according to a study conducted by Israeli researchers at the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine of Bar-Ilan University in Safed and the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya. They published their results on February 3 in the journal PLOS ONE, Scitechdaily reports.
Patients with vitamin D deficiency (less than 20 ng/mL) were 14 times more likely to have a severe or critical case of Covid-19 than those with more than 40 ng/mL, the study found, according to...