TB vaccine 21X better at stopping COVID deaths than mRNA vaccines – Dec 2024

Wonder if TB vaccinations are not as effective for adults as for infants (when the inmmune system is still developing)

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Highlights of conversations with Perplexity AI Dec 2024

• "As of 2022, the majority of countries (156 out of 194, or 80.4%) recommend universal BCG vaccination for all neonates"
• "The BCG vaccine is usually given as a single dose as soon after birth as possible, ideally around 28 days old"
• "Remember, the BCG vaccine is usually given only once in a lifetime, and its administration should be carefully timed in relation to other vaccinations and health conditions."
• Active ingredient: Live attenuated Mycobacterium bovis BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guérin), Danish strain 1331"
• "UNICEF reports a projected weighted average price (WAP) of $0.14 USD per dose for 2023"
• "The vaccine is prepared as a powder that is reconstituted with a solvent before use"

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VitaminDwiki – Tuberculosis category contains

125 Tuberculosis studies:    15 RCT,   14 Meta-analyses,  8 Vitamin D Receptor

• TB patients had low Vitamin D and poor Vitamin D receptor – June 2019
• Tuberculosis recovery speeded up by single 450,000 IU dose of vitamin D – RCT Jan 2017
  • Receptor-related diseases respond especially well to high-dose Vitamin D
• Pulmonary Tuberculosis 2X more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor (Mexico) – April 2018
• TB not prevented by a small amount of Vitamin D (2,000 IU daily average, Mongolia) – RCT July 2020
• Tuberculosis -100 percent cure rate with 10,000 IU of vitamin D daily – RCT 2006
• Latent Tuberculosis 44 percent less likely if Vitamin D more than 30 ng - 14th meta-analysis Jan 2022
• Tuberculosis (multi-drug resistant) was 13.4 X more likely to be quickly cleared with Vitamin D - Meta-analysis Feb 2019
• No tuberculosis if more than 80 ng of vitamin D (cattle) - Jan 2022

see also Overview Tuberculosis and Vitamin D    Breathing category
TB has been increasing

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VitaminDwiki – Overview Tuberculosis and Vitamin D contains

Many studies have found that Vitamin D both PREVENTS and TREATS TB

• As with many other diseases, we expect that there will be at least a 4X range of vitamin D due to:
  • 4X range in the response in the vitamin D blood level for the same IU dose - for healthy, non-obese, people
• Poor Vitamin D Receptor activation results in far less vitamin D getting to cells
  • However, a VDR restriction is not noticed by Vitamin D blood tests
• UV appears to be as powerful or perhaps more powerful than vitamin D in TREATING TB
• Tuberculosis -100 percent cure rate with 10,000 IU of vitamin D daily – RCT 2006
• TB 10X less likely to catch if have sufficient vitamin D – Dec 2011
• Trials using small vitamin D doses neither prevent nor treat TB 2023    2022    2020
• No tuberculosis if more than 80 ng of vitamin D (cattle) - Jan 2022
  • Humans need a lot of Vitamin D as well

TB and vitamin D 125 items

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Over 715 Virus studies have Vitamin D in the title - here are 27 of them

1. Monkeypox and Vitamin D - several studies
2. Bird flu possible pandemic (Vitamin D can prevent it)- many studies
3. Measles and low Vitamin D, Vitamin A
4. Vitamin D preventing and treating COVID - 30,000 publications – Oct 2024
5. How Vitamin D helps the body fight viral infections such as COVID-19 – Sept 2024
6. COVID ICU use reduced by 42% if take more than 100,000 IU of vitamin D over two weeks – meta-analysis Sept 2024
7. Vitamin D helps the immune system fight COVID-19 – Sunil video Jan 2021
8. COVID-19 Vitamin D Overview - Sunil video and transcript - Dec 8, 2020
9. Many viral diseases can be fought by immune system-augmented Vitamin D - Sunil Aug 2024
10. Viral infections reduced 40% by monthly 100,000 IU Vitamin D – RCT review Aug 2024
11. Long-COVID fatigue, anxiety, and cognition treated by 60,000 IU of vitamin D weekly – RCT July 2024
12. 15.3 X fewer COVID deaths in those getting Vitamin D injections in ICU – RCT July 2024
13. Influenza risk cut in half by the only trial giving enough vitamin D for body weight – meta-analysis Jan 2022
14. COVID death rate in hospital halved if take any amount of vitamin D for any length of time – meta-analysis May 2024
15. COVID and Vitamin D: 2X more likely to die if low, 2X more likely to survive if supplement – umbrella meta-analysis April 2024
16. Viral conjunctivitis much worse if low vitamin D in tears – April 2024
17. COVID death 12X more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor (less D gets to cells) - many studies
18. COVID maximum downregulation of Vitamin D receptor and CYP27B1 resulted in death - Feb 2024
19. Vitamin D: Viral infections, Infectious diseases, EBV and MS, Virus and Cancers – Grant March 2024
20. COVID infection (without hospitalization) – 1.7X more likely to die in 6 months if low Vitamin D – March 2024
21. COVID senior pneumonia deaths: 50% if low Vitamin D and unvaccinated vs 16% if Vitamin D or vaccinated – June 2023
22. 5 X less COVID infection of health care workers who took lots of vitamin D – meta-analysis Feb 2024
23. Long-COVID a month shorter if more than 20 ng of Vitamin D - Jan 2024
24. COVID deaths cut in half by a single dose of 600,000 IU of Vitamin D - RCT Jan 2024
25. HPV and Vitamin D - several studies
26. Feed Additives as Antiviral Agents: Probiotics, Vitamin D, Zn, Se, etc. - Dec 2023
27. All died of COVID with standard vitamin D, 25% survived if 10X more vitamin D (mice) – Dec 2023

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VitaminDWiki - Vitamin D can inhibit enveloped virus (e.g. Corona, Herpes, Bird Flu, Epstein, Hepatitis, RSV, etc.) – March 2011

Examples of enveloped virus   Coronavirus, Herpes simplex (cold sore), Shingles, Epstein-Barr, Hepatitis A &B & C, Zika, HIV, Dengue, Yellow fever, Measles, Mumps, smallpox, Monkeypox, Ebola, rabies, influenza, West Nile, Valley Fever, Croup, Lasa Fever, Hemorrhagic Fever, H5N1 bird flu