02-25-2020, 11:43 AM
(02-25-2020, 09:34 AM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 25-Feb-2020 World View: Vitamin C and Coronavirus
(02-24-2020, 08:40 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: > The common cold is also a coronavirus, so vitamin C should still
> be effective in reducing symptoms and duration. It seems that
> respiratory symptoms are what is causing death, so reducing the
> symptoms could be quite useful.
Lol! If you're right, this would be quite a dramatic discovery. A
lot of companies are trying to develop therapeutic drugs for
coronavirus, and the drug Ramdesevir by Gilead is being called the
most promising so far.
Vitamin C is off patent, so it won't be (re)discovered. Heck, the medical establishment hates Pauling so much that whenever vitamin C is shown to be good for something, they say it's "antioxidants" rather than just vitamin C.