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"98.9% of Vitamin D deficient cases died while only 1.1% of them were active cases. 87.8% of Vitamin D insufficient cases died while only 12.2% of them were active cases. Only 4.1% of cases with normal Vitamin D levels died while 95.9% of them were active cases."

Wait, only 13.3% (1.1 + 12.2) of all the active cases in total were vitamin D insufficient or worse? I thought the majority of people had insufficient vitamin D.

This data doesn't fully make sense to me. How come that so few people with a vitamin D insufficiency were active cases? I get that most of them died. But I don't get that so few, less than 15 percent, got to become an active case.

Edit: ah, it's an Indonesian study. Nevermind, I wouldn't know the numbers from there.



That's not right. 87.8 + 12.2% = 100% of insufficient etc. Active case = not dead


Thank you, I was confused by the term "active cases".




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