Our 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 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.

Speaking of these developments and what’s to come, is Dr. Michael Bauer, medical director at Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital.

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And in our second semester, Dr. David Meltzer, the Head of Hospital Medicine at the University of Chicago Medicine.

He is leading research being done here to see if vitamin D supplements can reduce the risk and severity of COVID-19, particularly in black and Latino patients.

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For information on studying vitamin D, click here.