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cord-286740-1esvgcxp	Singh, S.	ASSESSING THE ROLE OF ZINC IN COVID-19 INFECTIONS AND MORTALITY: IS ZINC DEFICIENCY A RISK FACTOR FOR COVID-19?	2020-06-14		.txt	text/plain	2167	109	49	Considering, Zinc 's key immunomodulatory role, widespread deficiency along with the selfand prescribed intervention in different target groups, e.g. children, women, elderly, carefully planned dedicated exploratory studies to understand the basis of the observed association are advisable. Recently, a protective correlation between Vitamin D serum levels and the cases and the deaths per million from COVID-19 had been indicated in the European countries supposedly having comparable confounding variables and similar health care infrastructure [5, 6] . Surprisingly, our analysis of the selected European countries indicated a consistently negative correlation of Zinc deficiency with COVID-19 cases per million population over the time period and indicated an almost significant correlation with the adverse outcome, i.e., death, which seemed improving with the passage of pandemic. Our analysis identified a negative association between the Zinc deficiency prevalence in the European countries and the COVID-19 impact in terms of cases and deaths per million population.	./cache/cord-286740-1esvgcxp.txt	./txt/cord-286740-1esvgcxp.txt