Today, Italian pathologists released the liver findings from the first large series of COVID-19 autopsies as a preprint.* Their findings suggest the liver is not a major site of inflammation, but suffers from extensive effects of blood clotting, probably driven by fundamental problems with the blood clotting process or the function of the cells that …

Today, the first study on the association between vitamin D status and infection risk was published in fully peer-reviewed and final form in the journal Nutrients (a journal I published part of my doctoral research in). Background to the Issue Up to this point, there have been four studies published as preprints associating vitamin D status with …

On April 22, I reported on the first large series of autopsies, which showed that blood clots are found in the small arteries of the lungs. The authors of that report suggested the blood clots are responsible for the low blood oxygen (hypoxemia) that occurs in severe COVID-19. Soon after, news reports surfaced of New …

I was an early advocate for zinc in the context of COVID-19, having first recommended it on March 17 in The Food and Supplement Guide for the Coronavirus and providing detailed justifications for zinc dosing in the April 10 issue of this newsletter. I am also involved in the design of a clinical trial that will …

Two new preprints* on vitamin D were released on May 5, and I analyze them in this update. Background So far I have covered vitamin D in three issues of this newsletter: My Response to Rhonda Patrick on Vitamin D and COVID-19 Update on Vitamin D and COVID-19 Using the First Observational Study Released The …

On May 1, I reported that the virus had mutated to spread faster. The key mutation was a change from the amino acid aspartate (abbreviated “D”) to the amino acid glycine (G) at position 614 of the spike protein sequence, a change known as D614G. The mutation didn’t seem to make the disease worse, though …