Vitamin D Deficiency and COVID-19: A review on the combined challenges of the older adults in low resource settings

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*Corresponding Author: Taoreed Azeez, Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes Unit, Department of Medicine, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria Email: adegokegalaxy@yahoo.com, +2347035728747 Received: June 15, 2020; Accepted: June 30, 2020; Published: July 8, 2020 Citation: Taoreed Azeez (2020) Vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19: A review on the combined challenges of the older adults in low resource settings. J Pharamacovigil. 8:281. doi-10.35248/2329-6887.20.8.281. Copyright: ©2020 Taoreed Azeez. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a viral infection caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS CoV-2) [1]. It was first reported in Wuhan city, China but it has now been declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). The virus is transmitted mainly by respiratory droplets. The common clinical presentations are fever, dry cough, generalized body aches, sore throat and abdominal symptoms and the treatment is mainly supportive. It affects both high resource and low resource nations. Managing COVID-19 has put a tremendous strain on health care infrastructure and this is even more pronounced in low resource settings.