Vitamin D supplementation can reduce the risk of death from coronavirus by 60%, said Spain's researchers from Spain.

These data show that vitamin D can improve the survival rate of COVID-19 patients, Social Science Research Network reported sharing a new study.

During the experiment, its authors gave certain portions of vitamin D to 900 patients with coronavirus, which reduced mortality by more than 60%. Vitamin therapy also reduced the need for mechanical ventilation by 80%.

Study participants were randomly divided into two groups. Participants in the first group received calcifediol, while others were given a placebo.

So far, the results of the study have not been independently evaluated, but they show that only 36 people from the first group of 551 patients have died from the COVID-19. In the second group, 57 patients out of 379 died on placebo. 5% of the participants in the first group ended up in intensive care units.