Vitamin C protects body functions due to its anti-oxidant properties, and vitamin D enhances immune functions, in high doses.
Both have been extensively used in COVID-19 patients; there are approximately 20 trials listed on "clinicaltrials.gov" which are evaluating the role of these vitamins either alone or in combination with other nutrients/drugs.
Seeking valuable opinions from RG community for improving decisions when advising patients for the intake of these vitamins in high doses.
You might not even need high doses of sone vitamins such as vitamin D. Making sure that patients are not deficient msy be important
https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/coronavirus-disease-covid-19/vitamin-d-deficiency-may-raise-risk-of-getting-covid19
There is much confusion about 'high doses' vit D and vit C. Deficinecy is a risk factor for many diseases including COVID, but wat is sufficient and what is optimal regarding prevention.
For both vitamins it is very hard to take an overdose. A recent overview of the association of vitamin D levels with COVID is given by Benskin in Frontiers of Public Health entitled A Basic Review of the Preliminary Evidence that COVID-19 Risk and Severity is Increased in Vitamin D Deficiency
It is about strengthening our immunity and preventing a mild flu from becoming a life threatening condition. Basically the idea is to strengthen the immunity of the body to fight the virus than to find remedies for the virus.
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