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Vitamin C, ascorbic acid, is a required nutrient for humans that humans are unable to endogenously synthesize.  Therefore, humans are dependent of food and other external sources for sources of vitamin C.
A deficiency of vitamin C has been found to be linked with respiratory infections, and current evidence suggests that 2-8 g/day of oral vitamin C may reduce the incidence and duration of these respiratory infections, including COVID-19.  

Using Vitamin C to mitigate Covid-19

Holford, P., Carr, A. C., Jovic, T. H., Ali, S. R., Whitaker, I. S., Marik, P. E., & Smith, A. D. (2020). Vitamin C-An Adjunctive Therapy for Respiratory Infection, Sepsis and COVID-19. Nutrients, 12(12), 3760. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12123760

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