A number of senior medics will appear before the Oireachtas Health Committee today, where they will call on Government to recommend the use of Vitamin D in its Living with Covid-19 strategy.
Among those attending will be Professor Rose Anne Kenny, Head of the academic department of Medical Gerontology at TCD and lead investigator of TILDA (The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing).
She will be joined by Professor JB Walsh, Professor John Faul, Dr Martin Healy and Dr Daniel McCartney, Director of Human Nutrition and Dietetics at TU Dublin.
Dr McCartney will tell politicians that a growing number of studies are showing a link between Vitamin D deficiency and severe Covid-19 symptoms.