[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 97 (Tuesday, June 7, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H5324-H5325]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY AND COVID

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Well, Madam Speaker, one more time I will make my 
weekly statement with regard to Vitamin D.
  The COVID epidemic is on the downslide but, in the most recent week, 
we still had 1,600 Americans die.
  I call America's attention, and the subcommittee dealing with COVID, 
to the fantastic benefits of Vitamin D.
  Israeli studies show people who have inadequate Vitamin D levels, 
under 20 nanograms per milliliter, are 11 times more likely to die of 
the COVID. And we have known about this for 2 years now.

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  I beg the public health establishment to spend a little bit of time 
talking about Vitamin D. I beg the public health establishment to check 
for Vitamin D levels when people come in. I have found people with 
levels as low as 16 or 4. By taking Vitamin D supplements, it may save 
their life.
  I point out to the medical establishment that when I talk to the 
American people back home and they wonder why this isn't being talked 
about, they believe it is because there is no money to be made in 
giving a supplement that can cost 12 or 13 bucks at Walgreens. And it 
is a sad state of affairs when the American public believes that is the 
reason they haven't been educated on this lifesaving supplement.

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