There were two very early studies I remember reading surrounding covid-19, in 2020, that I'd love to see more light shed on now.
One was that people who took Vitamin D were less likely to be symptomatic. The other was that people who smoke cigarettes were something like 80% less likely to experience severe respiratory complications.
I take Vitamin D every day and smoke like the devil, and I'm the only person I know who's never had covid (or at least never tested positive for it... and I'm a paranoiac who for several years tested anytime my nose itched). Confirmation bias of one right here.
Did either of those things have any truth to them? I do realize that daily smokers tend to underreport their smoking, which could lead the stats to lean toward showing that nonsmokers got severe disease at a higher rate than their percentage of the general population, if smokers lie at a rate of 5:1 on their hospital admission forms... but it never sat right with me that this wasn't followed up. I seem remember a similar thing with smokers / reduced risk of acute lung disease among the cleanup workers at Chernobyl, so in some way it made sense to me at the time.
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[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 16.6 ms ] threadOne was that people who took Vitamin D were less likely to be symptomatic. The other was that people who smoke cigarettes were something like 80% less likely to experience severe respiratory complications.
I take Vitamin D every day and smoke like the devil, and I'm the only person I know who's never had covid (or at least never tested positive for it... and I'm a paranoiac who for several years tested anytime my nose itched). Confirmation bias of one right here.
Did either of those things have any truth to them? I do realize that daily smokers tend to underreport their smoking, which could lead the stats to lean toward showing that nonsmokers got severe disease at a higher rate than their percentage of the general population, if smokers lie at a rate of 5:1 on their hospital admission forms... but it never sat right with me that this wasn't followed up. I seem remember a similar thing with smokers / reduced risk of acute lung disease among the cleanup workers at Chernobyl, so in some way it made sense to me at the time.