Letter to the editor: Covid-19 and Vit-D: Disease mortality negatively correlates with sunlight exposure

Florian Naudet; Clara Locher; Alain Braillon; André Gillibert

doi:10.1016/j.sste.2020.100373

Letter to the editor: Covid-19 and Vit-D: Disease mortality negatively correlates with sunlight exposure

Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol. 2020 Nov:35:100373. doi: 10.1016/j.sste.2020.100373. Epub 2020 Aug 24.

Authors

Florian Naudet¹, Clara Locher², Alain Braillon³, André Gillibert⁴

Affiliations

¹ Univ Rennes, CHU Rennes, Inserm, CIC 1414 (Centre d'Investigation Clinique de Rennes), F- 35000 Rennes, France. Electronic address: Florian.NAUDET@chu-rennes.fr.
² Univ Rennes, CHU Rennes, Inserm, CIC 1414 (Centre d'Investigation Clinique de Rennes), F- 35000 Rennes, France.
³ Previously senior consultant, Alcohol Treatment Unit, University Hospital, Amiens, France.
⁴ Department of Biostatistics, CHU Rouen, Rouen, Normandie, France.

Abstract

The manuscript "Covid-19 And Vit-D: Disease Mortality Negatively Correlates with Sunlight Exposure" held our attention as we found fatal shortcomings that invalidates the analyses and conclusions.

Keywords: Bias; COVID-19; Reproducibility; Scientific integrity; Vitamine D.

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MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections*
Humans
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral*
SARS-CoV-2
Sunlight*
Vitamin D

Substances

Vitamin D