On: Vitamin D and Inflammation: Potential Implications for Severity of Covid-19

[disgruntledphd2]

To be fair, inflammation is literally (or perhaps figuratively) correlated with almost every bad outcome.

[SAI_Peregrinus → disgruntledphd2]

And given that inflammation is part of the body's immune response (and response to trauma or other damage) it makes sense that it would be correlated with all sorts of bad things.

Showing that inflammation is causative tends to be the hard part, since it's often a consequence of the underlying damage.