VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTS TO PREVENT/TREAT COVID?

I can always hear radio advertisements regarding Vitamin D3 supplementation in preventing diseases especially COVID patients. In fact, I have one patient before who had been prescribed by another doctor of Vitamin D3. I have come upon a good video in you tube wherein it discusses the merit of using vitamin D3 supplementation as a treatment for COVID and cites good, credible clinical trials and medical studies about it. (I will link the said youtube video below:)

VITAMIN D AND COVID NEW STUDIES - EVIDENCE FOR A PROTECTIVE ROLE OF VITAMIN D IN COVID BY DR. MIKE HANSEN

So regarding Vitamin D supplementation: according to studies, vitamin D insufficiency MAY INCREASE THE RISK of COVID and Covid complications BUT vitamin D supplementation IS ONLY VALUABLE TO THOSE WHO ARE VITAMIN D DEFICIENT. Meaning Vitamin D supplementation for those who are Not Vitamin D Deficient may not be of great value.

Alternative Ways of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Compliance during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abolish CPD Call of Certain Sectors of Society

About 4 years after the Republic Act 10912 or the "Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Act" became law, the presidential son, Rep. Paolo Duterte recently said that he will be proposing a bill to repeal the law authored by former Senator Antonio Trillanes, IV. 

He also emphasized that he will personally work with his colleagues in the House of Representatives, the senators in the Senate and with President Rodrigo Duterte to advocate for the abolition of the said law. He cites the undue burden that the law has imposed to hard working and selfless professionals especially during the COVID-19 Pandemic. 

It is noted that the said law has mandated that professionals has to comply with prescribed number of CPD units of their profession before they will be allowed to renew their Professional Identification Card (PIC) with the Professional Regulations Commission.

UPDATE on the Status of COVID-19 VACCINES

With the advent of fast-paced technology and media reports, we can surmise that with the COVID-19 pandemic, the development of a vaccine can also be at a record speed but reading an article by Dr. Sanjay Gupta at CNN, this reality is grim so far regarding COVID-19 Vaccine Development.

1 Revealing Point: According to the Milken Institute, although there are 254 treatments and 172 vaccines currently in development to fight COVID-19, so far, there is only 1 PUBLISHED STUDY of a vaccine which is trialed in Humans. Other vaccines/treatment in development are either press-releases or pre-print reports.

Photo Credit: European Pharmaceutical Review

For those who have no idea on the significance of a Published Study on vaccine development or any other thing basically is this - published studies are subjected to peer review, which by essence brings down the expertise of most if not all of the science disciplines to screen this studies and POINT SOME POTENTIAL ERRORS of the study that may be unintentional and also makes the study and eventually the science or the vaccine BETTER.