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Glenn Grothman: This speech is being given kind of on short notice, a little earlier than I expected. But we don't want to have the…

On the recordNovember 19, 2020
This speech is being given kind of on short notice, a little earlier than I expected. But we don't want to have the listening audience back home get any dead air, so I am rushing to give the talk. Hopefully, you will be satisfied, with not an excess of preparation. Today, I address something I don't think has been addressed nearly enough with regard to the crisis of the COVID virus. In the last couple of weeks, we have gone over 250,000 deaths at least partially attributed to the coronavirus, and I want to talk about something we can do to decrease that number of deaths that I think has been far and away underpublicized, underpublicized despite the fact that we have appropriated over $3 trillion to fighting this disease, underpublicized despite the fact that public health professionals are constantly being interviewed on our news programs and are out and about on advertisements telling us what we can do to reduce the huge number of deaths attributed to this disease. One thing I want to do today is I am going to talk one more time about vitamin D. I know some of the folks back home are familiar with vitamin D, but I don't think the huge number of studies that recommend vitamin D have been publicized anywhere near enough. Right before I got here, I was talking to one of my constituents back home, a bright, well-informed person. He was surprised that vitamin D can be used to reduce the mortality rate from the COVID.…
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Glenn Grothman
Republican · Wisconsin
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Nov 19, 2020

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