Vitamin C for Covid-19 (LOVIT-COVID and REMAP-CAP)

Vitamin C has a powerful hold on the medical imagination. Much of this can be attributed to Nobel laureate Linus Pauling’s late-career obsession with the molecule. He evangelized as late as 1990 for megadoses that he promised would let us live 25 years longer, “free of diseases.” (Vitamin C is a vital nutrient that prevents scurvy and whose supplementat…