News articles erroneously claim that Vit C is not effective vs. viruses

Keywords: "COVID-19, Coronavirus, viruses, Vitamin C, Vit C, ascorbic acid"

My searches of Google News for "COVID-19 vitamins" have been turning up more and more articles which claim that Vit C has no effect against the disease, in contrast to articles about people at death's door with COVID-19 who have been saved by IV sodium ascorbate. So, I searched Primal Panacea by Thomas Levy, MD, and found a couple of interesting passages on this subject:


Contrary to the blindly repeated mantra of the mainstream medical community that "there are no studies," I discovered a wealth of information, much of it in the most accepted and respected medical journals. Study after study demonstrated vitamin C's ability to singularly eradicate, neutralize, or otherwise cure an incredibly large and diverse array of infectious diseases, especially viral diseases. Furthermore, there appeared to be no type of poisoning or toxic exposure that a high enough amount of properly administered vitamin C could not remedy.

from the preface of Primal Panacea by Thomas Levy, MD (available in ebook and PB form)

Furthermore, it is clear that a certain blood concentration of tissue saturation of vitamin C is always needed before a positive clinical response can be observed. So, when tiny doses have been tested against many different infections, researchers often report that vitamin C had no positive clinical effect. Studies appear to have employed this fact to discredit vitamin C's efficacy by purposely testing with very small amounts.

From Ch 1 (just before the conclusion) of Primal Panacea by Thomas Levy, MD