Sunshine Correlated with Decreasing Death Outcome among Covid-19 Patients: Pre-Assuming Vitamin D that Triggered Immunity

Meita Veruswati (Department of Public Health Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universitas Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. HAMKA)
Al Asyary (Department of Environmental Health, Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia)
Rony Darmawansyah Alnur (Department of Public Health Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universitas Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. HAMKA (UHAMKA), Jakarta, Indonesia)
Aries Prasetyo (Study Program of Environmental Health, Health Polytechnic of Surabaya, Indonesian Ministry of Health, Magetan, Indonesia)

Journal of Ultimate Public Health
Vol. 4 No. 2 (2020): November 2020

Previous decades, sunshine was taking as medication therapy for respiratory infectious as it triggered vitamin D in fostering body immune. The objective of this brief study is to estimate the outcome of Covid-19 patients as they were exposed by sunshine exposure in those were having care delivery in Surabaya referred hospitals, Indonesia. We collected and analyzed the available Covid-19 data from hospitals surveillance data from the local government of Surabaya data center, including the Meteorological, Climatological, and Geophysical Agency. Three outcomes of Covid-19 were investigated in this study includes: incidence, death, and recovered. The Covid-19 incidence in Surabaya was climbing over the period of investigation. Only the number of dead Covid-19 patients correlated significantly with sunshine exposure in those having care delivery in hospitals (p-value<0.01; r = -0.739). Our findings showed that sunshine correlated significantly with Covid-19’s death outcome in Surabaya.