Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University and Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center have started a clinical trial to determine if high doses of vitamin C delivered intravenously can be a safe and effective treatment for the serious illness caused by the coronavirus.
Commonly found in orange juice, vitamin C likely can reduce inflammation in the lungs if delivered intravenously at high doses, said Dr. Alpha âBerryâ Fowler, a VCU pulmonologist who has studied lung infections for decades and who pioneered the use of vitamin C as a treatment.
As doctors treated COVID-19 this year, they began to learn that the bodyâs inflammatory response to the virus was perhaps more injurious than the virus itself. If doctors could tamp down the bodyâs aggressive response, they could save the patientâs life.