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

CHICAGO (WLS) – There was some encouraging news last week in the fight against COVID-19.

Illinois administers several vaccines, even setting records.

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

Talking about these developments and what follows is Dr. Michael Bauer, medical director at Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Forest Hospital.

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

He conducts research here, examining whether vitamin D supplements can reduce the risk and severity of COVID-19, especially in patients with Black and Latinx.

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