{"id":1780,"date":"2020-05-25T03:34:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T03:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seleniumfacts.com\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2021-04-27T14:00:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T14:00:45","slug":"china-and-the-covid-19-virus-the-selenium-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seleniumfacts.com\/index.php\/china-and-the-covid-19-virus-the-selenium-connection","title":{"rendered":"China and COVID-19 Virus: The Selenium Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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China has regions with selenium-rich soils and foodstuffs and regions with selenium-poor soils and foodstuffs. Researchers have compared the COVID-19 cure-rate and death-rate for infected individuals in selenium-rich and selenium-poor regions in China. They have found that regions with low selenium status have lower cure-rates and higher death-rates.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

China and Corona Virus will be forever linked in our minds.\u00a0 However, there is another important connection that we should be making: selenium status and its effect on COVID-19 virus in China.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let me explain. Chinese and American and British researchers have published a letter in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition<\/em> in which they report evidence of a significant association between regional selenium status and the reported cure-rate of COVID-19 infected patients in China<\/em> [Zhang 2020].<\/strong><\/p>\n

The researchers\u2019 data show a statistically significant association between the reported cure-rates for COVID-19 virus infections and selenium status<\/em><\/a> in China [Zhang 2020].<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Selenium Status and COVID-19 Cure-Rate<\/h4>\n

Beginning in mid-February 2020, the researchers collected data from the Baidu website, which they describe as a non-governmental website that provides daily updates of reports from the health commission of each province in China.<\/p>\n

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Professor Margaret P. Rayman, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, was one of the researchers on the Selenium and COVID-19 Cure-Rate in China Study. In Figure 2 in her 2019 article on Selenium Intake, Status, and Health, Professor Rayman suggests that a serum selenium concentration of approximately 125 micrograms per liter is optimal.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The researchers defined cure-rate and death-rate as the percentages of COVID-19 infected patients who were cured or who died.<\/p>\n

They used the National Health Commission of China definition for \u201ccured patients.\u201d<\/p>\n