NY State found vitamin E acetate in “nearly all” of the few samples they tested, defined as greater than 75% as far as I can tell.
The most recent data from the CDC and FDA, from last week, found only 34.79% of the 304 samples tested had vit E acetate. And only 47% of the 225 THC samples tested positive for vit E acetate. With a range of 23%-88% vit E acteate and a mean of 50%. So, Vit E acetate isn’t a common factor, far from it.
It’s as disproved as it can be at this point that EVALI is caused by lipoid pneumonia, which some well-intentioned doctors and many ill-informed reporters blamed on vit E acetate.
The cause is now thought to be chemical or toxic, not lipids. But, there may be more than one root cause, and more than one ancillary cause to EVAPI, because EVAPI could be more than one illness. Right now nothing has been ruled out, but, there are no known common factors in all EVALI cases, except for the fact they vaped with hardware.
Check out this thread for the most current info about vit E acetate relative to lipids and lipoid pneumonia: Researchers Say Vitamin E Likely Isn’t the Culprit in Vaping-Related Ailments
Also, here’s a new quote from a different researcher in the Mayo Clinic study referenced in this thread and the one I linked to:
Recently, a group of researchers studied samples of lung tissue taken from 17 patients across the U.S. who had fallen ill with the mysterious vaping-related illness. They didn’t find any evidence that [oils coating] the lungs were causing the problem, and the authors “feel comfortable saying” that a buildup of oil in the lungs is not what’s causing the injury , said the first author of that study, Dr. Yasmeen Butt, a surgical pathologist at the Mayo Clinic.