Are there any dietary supplements that can prevent COVID-19?
Essentially there is no supplement that can prevent the coronavirus. What we have seen is that there are many patients who have suffered from the coronavirus and have vitamin D deficiency. There are several trials now underway to see if supplementing with vitamin D could not so much prevent coronavirus but improve the situation for patients in some way. But as yet there is no evidence.
Answered by José Miguel Soriano, researcher and lecturer at the University of Valencia, full professor in the area of nutrition and bromatology. He works at the Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Food Science, Toxicology, and Forensic Medicine Department. He is also a senior researcher at the Food and Health Lab.
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