Study finds more than 80% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients had this in common

• Researchers in Spain have provided an intriguing coronavirus update, in the form of a study that found a strong likelihood that Vitamin D deficiencies might explain why so many people were hospitalized with the coronavirus there over a particular period of time.
  
• The research did not establish a link between the vitamin deficiency and severity of the coronavirus case, however.
• More research is still needed to determine the precise nature of the interplay between Vitamin D and the COVID-19 coronavirus.

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Slowly but surely, scientists and researchers are starting to understand at least some of the most mysterious aspects of the COVID-19 coronavirus -- like why some people develop such a severe infection, while the virus seems to miss other people entirely.

One of the newest coronavirus updates we have comes in the form of a new study from researchers in Spain, specifically the University Hospital Marques de Valdecilla in Santander which analyzed patients over a period of time early on in the pandemic to look for similarities. Intriguingly, more than 80% of a group of 216 COVID-19 patients admitted to the hospital between March 10 and March 31 were found to have a vitamin D deficiency.

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