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Sky News speaks to a registered dietitian about whether vitamin C supplementation could help in the fight against coronavirus
Doctors in New York have been prescribing critically ill coronavirus patients large doses of vitamin C, and it is also being trialled in hard-hit China where COVID-19 originated.
But the results of a study at Wuhan University - where 140 patients are being given big amounts of the antioxidant intravenously to establish if it could improve outcomes - will not be completed until September.
At the moment, there is no evidence that taking vitamin C supplements could prevent or cure the respiratory illness COVID-19, a UK health expert has told Sky News.
Posts have also been widely shared online about the supposed wonders of vitamin C, including one of a quote by the late doctor Robert F Cathcart, who said: "I have not seen any flu yet that was not cured or markedly ameliorated by massive doses of vitamin C."
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