Matt Hancock orders third review on link between vitamin D and Covid
by Mattha Busby from Science | The Guardian on (#5DSWR)
Exclusive: UK health secretary asks PHE and Nice to re-review' prior appraisals
A third review into the link between vitamin D and Covid has been ordered by the UK health secretary as more studies suggest that having low levels of the sunshine hormone" raises the risk of death.
Matt Hancock has again asked the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice), which sets NHS England clinical guidelines, and Public Health England (PHE) to re-review" their prior appraisals, after the authorities began encouraging" people to take vitamin D supplements rather than merely advising" it.
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