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Old 07-01-2020, 10:54 PM
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For some people there are good medical reasons for keeping dietary gluten to a minimum. Those with the auto-immune condition called celiac disease are an example as well as those with non-celiac gluten sensitivity.

There are many reasons why the reported levels of Covid-19 infection in different countries (and parts of different countries) differ. In no particular order they include:

Accuracy of reported levels, quality of public health systems, identification of contacts of an infected person with testing and quarantine if needed, following the social isolation and distancing rules, premature relaxation of lock-down rules are all examples of this.

I do not think that the claimed correlation between risk of Covid-19 infection and dietary gluten is convincing especially as the claimed correlation is not strong.

As the old saying goes, "correlation is not causation".
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