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Comment
. 2020 Nov:35:100373.
doi: 10.1016/j.sste.2020.100373. Epub 2020 Aug 24.

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

Florian Naudet  1 , Clara Locher  2 , Alain Braillon  3 , André Gillibert  4
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Comment

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

Florian Naudet et al. Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol. 2020 Nov.

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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Declaration of Competing Interest We declare no competing interests.

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Fig. 1
Scatterplot and Spearman's correlations of intra-hospital mortality (number of COVID-19 deaths in hospital divided by number of COVID-19 hospitalizations) and Sunlight exposure (with and without Corsica). Data and code to reproduce this analysis are available on the Open Science Framework (osf.io/mjz35).
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  • Response to Naudet et al.
    Lansiaux É, Pébaÿ PP, Picard JL, Forget J. Lansiaux É, et al. Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol. 2021 Feb;36:100388. doi: 10.1016/j.sste.2020.100388. Epub 2020 Dec 2. Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol. 2021. PMID: 33509432 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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