the headline doesn't fit with the text of the article. the article doesn't quote him as saying that he takes vitamin C, but that taking a gram of vitamin-c is not bad.
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"If you're deficient in vitamin D, that does have an impact on your susceptibility to infection. I would not mind recommending, and I do it myself, taking vitamin D supplements," he said. "The other vitamin that people take is vitamin C because it's a good antioxidant, so if people want to take a gram or so of vitamin C, that would be fine."
Big problem being that for most people, it's about same susceptibility as cold, meaning, eh? (Measured by symptoms. COVID has much higher rate of very bad symptoms.)
The people who are susceptible to colds will be just as susceptible to COVID-19 and supplements will do about nothing.
Much less than religiously washing hands and wearing quality masks, preferably respirators, for sure.
Until they understood that it could be spread by asymptomatic carriers -- at which point (In mid March), they fully recommended them. There are far bigger 'jokes' who are still denying mask wearing and other interventions are saving lives.
Those same guidelines were echoed by the CDC because of the PPE shortages caused by people mass buying masks and such. So they understandably designed those past guidelines to prioritize health workers who had a higher viral load than probably any of us experience from day to day activities, mask or not.
But now that masks are common place, the guidelines were evolved to reflect the new reality.
Because there was a critical shortage of masks in hospitals treating COVID and people were hoarding them, and it was unclear at the time that asymptomatic carriers could be contagious. Once there was no longer a critical shortage in hospitals and it became clear that the asymptomatic could very much spread it, he quickly switched his position. It was an entirely sensible position.
It is ironic that vitamins are okay to recommend. But when practicing physicians got together to recommend HCQ, that advice was labeled as misinformation and promptly removed from everywhere.
Clearly vitamins are better than a drug that has been in use for decades with a proven safety record AND while being recommended by physicians bound to the hippocratic oath.
Why can't there be validity to both vitamins and certain existing drugs? (AND vs OR)
It as though we actively do not want to admit that we may already have something out there that can help us.
PS: Vitamins is a friendly name for often synthetic or derived compounds, not necessarily in the exact same chemical structure as found naturally in organic matter. Not to mention there are also various chemistries that affect absorption etc.
[+] [-] compsciphd|5 years ago|reply
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"If you're deficient in vitamin D, that does have an impact on your susceptibility to infection. I would not mind recommending, and I do it myself, taking vitamin D supplements," he said. "The other vitamin that people take is vitamin C because it's a good antioxidant, so if people want to take a gram or so of vitamin C, that would be fine."
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[+] [-] AstralStorm|5 years ago|reply
The people who are susceptible to colds will be just as susceptible to COVID-19 and supplements will do about nothing.
Much less than religiously washing hands and wearing quality masks, preferably respirators, for sure.
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[+] [-] jassany|5 years ago|reply
But now that masks are common place, the guidelines were evolved to reflect the new reality.
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[+] [-] alyx|5 years ago|reply
Clearly vitamins are better than a drug that has been in use for decades with a proven safety record AND while being recommended by physicians bound to the hippocratic oath.
Why can't there be validity to both vitamins and certain existing drugs? (AND vs OR)
It as though we actively do not want to admit that we may already have something out there that can help us.
PS: Vitamins is a friendly name for often synthetic or derived compounds, not necessarily in the exact same chemical structure as found naturally in organic matter. Not to mention there are also various chemistries that affect absorption etc.
[+] [-] yehosef|5 years ago|reply