Our Chicago: Help UChicago Medicine researchers find out if vitamin D can reduce the risks of COVID-19

CHICAGO (WLS) – Last week there was encouraging news about the fight against COVID-19.

Illinois is administering more vaccines, even setting records.

The positivity rate of the state test remains low. And there is more news about the Johnson and Johnson vaccine.

Michael Bauer, medical director of Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital, talks about this news and what awaits us.

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And in our second half, Dr. David Meltzer, head of hospital medicine at the University of Chicago.

It is one of the main researches being done here on whether vitamin D supplements can reduce the risk and severity of COVID-19, especially in patients with Black and Latinx.

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For information on the study of vitamin D, click here.