https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10796569
Vitamin C deficiency makes you more susceptible to the cold and severe infections.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16988135
Vitamin C has shown inhibitory effect in chickens for avian coronavirus.
https://academic.oup.com/jac/article/52/6/1049/731701
Chinese are testing intravenous Vitamin C for treating COVID-19 with promising results for reducing cytokine-induced damage to the lungs.
https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=2...
I am really not sure why news organizations all around the world feel the need to debunk Vitamin C usage for novel coronavirus. For instance: https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/03/09/coronavirus-its-time-... . Their conclusions all amount to: washing hands is better, you may get a tummy ache, and don't believe folk remedies.
This means it is essential for tissue repair. Also the production of neurotransmitters / cell signalling molecules.
Of course it improves recovery and reduces severity of symptoms. Of course it won't prevent anything.
I can't understand how there is any dispute.
You are full of nonsence. Of course it prevents scurvy ffs.
> This means it is essential for tissue repair.
This totally doesn't mean that. Vitamin C is cofactor and resource. It is used in bunch of processes, only some of it are for repair.
Your second statement doesn't negate my claim that Vitamin C is essential for tissue repair. It absolutely is, but of course that's not all it's essential for, and I did hint at this in the bit you didn't quote.
A lot of people are magnesium deficient too. Magnesium is known essential in over 300 enzyme pathways.
Vitamin C is probably the only well known anti-viral agent used by basically entire planet.
I suggest anybody to take several grams of C, in divided doses (mandatory) all the time, particularly now (also inform your elders). There is no downside to this, there can only be neutral or positive effects (to anybody jumping about oxalate levels, please stop your thoughts now).
Pauling also claimed you need to take bunch of other vitamins in his books - 25K IU A, 5K D etc... so he was not mistaken. If it was only about vitamin C, he would not call his medicine orthomolecular but probably ascorbatomolecular ... His claims on C were never tested (not in the doses he used, but using x10-x100 times lower doses). What happend then was not medicine, but politics.