A major international ‘Vitamin C for COVID’ campaign has been launched
The campaign aims to promote the widespread use of vitamin C wherever there is a raised risk of COVID-19 infection, as well as an additional treatment for those seriously infected.
The launch of vitaminC4covid.com follows the publication of a major review of over 100 trials of the vitamin and the virus, which found that vitamin C could save the lives of those badly infected with COVID-19 and make the symptoms of milder infections less severe, as detailed in our article: Vitamin C can help defeat COVID-19
Results from more than 100 studies, included a gold-standard RCT (Randomised Controlled Trial) which showed that Vitamin C could cut the death rate of patients in intensive care units by 68%. The patients got vitamin C or sterile water from a drip.
A similar trial comparing a steroid drug (dexamethasone) with a placebo in June was hailed as a success. It reduced deaths by just 3%.
Any yet documentation reporting the benefits of vitamin C is still invariably treated as ‘fake news’ by the mainstream Western medicine fraternity. Could Big Pharma be playing a role in trying to suppress use of this inexpensive anti-viral nutrient? We can’t sit back and let this happen. Our lives are at stake!
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There are currently 45 trials registered using vitamin C around the world. The evidence is already considerably more substantial than that for vitamin D, another key COVID -19 defence nutrient which the government is already planning to supply for free,
The aim of the Vitamin C for COVID campaign is to get vitamin C taken seriously, both by governments, healthcare systems and individuals around the world. vitaminC4covid.com is calling for the following changes:
- The government and its public health and nutrition agencies to thoroughly assess the evidence and fund studies of this inexpensive and safe nutrient.
- The government, NHS, health care and medical associations to recommend to all citizens to supplement vitamin C during this viral epidemic, based on the available evidence.
- Content on ‘vitamin C for COVID-19 or corona’ no longer being classified as false information in both digital, broadcast and print media.
- GPs, doctors and nutrition practitioners to be allowed and actively encouraged to recommend vitamin C supplementation for anyone with cold symptoms or coronavirus infection to reduce duration and severity of symptoms as an allowable health claim.
- All COVID-19 patients to be tested for vitamin C status and treated accordingly.
- Vitamin C to be given to all COVID-19 patients as early as possible on hospital admission.
- Intravenous vitamin C to be trialled as a standard adjunctive treatment for all critical COVID patients in Intensive Care Units.
Steps are already being taken by some of the authors of the paper to achieve the above:
David Smith, Emeritus Professor of pharmacology at the University of Oxford is presenting the evidence to the National Institute for Clinical Evidence (NICE).
Philip Calder from the University of Southampton, who is Professor of Nutritional Immunology within Medicine is talking about the paper to the Nutrition Society today, to inform members of the UK’s Scientific Advisory Committee of Nutrition (SACN) who advise government on policy.
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Very informative
Great to see the campaign results so far. Well done to the Vitamin C for Covid campaign team, many who are volunteers. According to today’s newsletter from the team:
• £11,932 in donations have been received or pledged – this has paid for the website, publication of the scientific review, the campaign manager and PR for 3 months (end of Jan) and a seed fund of £1,000 for preparing for the planned care home study (we need £10,000). Thank you!
• 6,428 have signed the petition
• 470 doctors, nutritionists, scientists and other health care professionals
• 6,000 have downloaded the ‘vitamin C for COVID’ review in Nutrients journal
• 60 countries are now represented
• 21 medical, nutritional or healthcare organisations are supporting
• Over 26 articles have been published
• We’ve contacted and shared the scientific evidence with Public Health England, all NERVTAG members, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock, all NHS Chiefs, National Institute for Clinical Evidence (NICE).
• Also, we’ve designed the care home study
Plus the campaign has now gone global – just click on the flag of your country to see the relevant stats.
[…] death toll in the UK exceeded 100,000. I was sad and so very, angry because, 9 months later, and despite a huge campaign, the benefits of vitamin C for the most seriously ill COVID patients is still being largely […]
An update from the Vitamin C for COVID campaign team:
With your help we have been bombarding MPs with the research around vitamin C for covid. Over 150 different MPs have been contacted. Initially we were receiving a standard response from them about lack of research and have a draft letter for you to respond with that points out ALL the research so do get in contact if you need this.
The persistence is paying off though as this week the messages back are reflecting that they are starting to listen (and maybe realising that we aren’t going away with this message J). We wanted to thank you for all your help and share some of the more positive responses:
• Andrea Leadsome MP – has demanded an urgent review of vitamin C. This has been received by Jo Churchill and the team at the Department of Health
• Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, asked the NHS and the Department for Health to look again at the evidence relating to Vitamin C & D in relation to Covid-19.
• Cat Smith MP – Clearly the Government should be pursuing every avenue to combat this virus and the information which you provided clearly indicates that this should include Vitamin C alongside other vitamins. I would be very happy to put your points to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
• Sir Jonathan Redwood MP – have been pressing the government over diet and vitamin supplements as a means of cutting vulnerability to the virus.
If you haven’t written to your MP then please do so (template here) and bcc us or let us know the name / response as we are tracking. Please keep it up, if we keep applying the pressure they can’t ignore this vital lifesaving message.
From the VitaminC4Covid team,
Patrick, Rob, Rebecca, Chantal, Andrew and Gaby
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