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User23 | karma 6892 | avg karma 1.23 · 2021-10-31 13:03:47

This statement assumes that death is the only bad outcome from COVID that sufficient Vitamin D3 levels prevent.

Death is useful as a metric because, unlike other health outcomes, particularly quality of life ones, there's no element of subjectivity.

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simion314 | karma 7313 | avg karma 1.67 · 2021-10-31 13:09:05

You could measure days of hospitalization too, I would suggest both vaccine and Vitamin supplements if there are no side-effects.

rossdavidh | karma 19091 | avg karma 4.77 · 2021-10-31 13:23:13

Another useful aspect of death as a metric, is that it is the most widely reported (as compared to, say, maximum fever, amount of ventilation required, days in hospital, lasting anosmia, etc. etc.)

wrycoder | karma 5940 | avg karma 2.2 · 2021-10-31 14:38:44

It appears that with COVID, the proximate cause of death is often mis-coded, for financial reasons.