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Adaptive Photo-Protection Trial, Giacomo Adoncecchi, Frank Lau, John Macmahon, Carmen Castilla, Catherine Powell

Medical Student Research Poster Symposium

Background A growing body of literature has demonstrated a moderate negative correlation between vitamin D insufficiency and morbidity and mortality from Covid-19 infection.1 Confounding this is the fact that serum vitamin D levels are also low in comorbidities that also correlate with higher Covid-19 mortality.2,3 However, studies of oral vitamin D have not consistently improved COVID outcomes.4,5 Vitamin D – and at least 30 other immunoregulatory compounds – is produced in response to ultraviolet B (UVB) light.1 UVB light is standard of care in several autoimmune diseases, including graft vs. host disease, cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, and psoriasis.6,7,8 To date, no …