Publication date: Jul 29, 2025
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that caused the COVID-19 pandemic to break out touched off a global health catastrophe characterized by various degrees of disease severity among those who were afflicted. Many strategies, such as vitamin C administration, have been investigated to reduce COVID-19 symptoms. Although the exact processes by which vitamin C affects COVID-19 remain unclear, noticeable changes in PCR test results were noted in our laboratory settings. This study uses PCR analysis to investigate the effects of varying vitamin C dosages and durations on COVID-19 test results. PCR cycle threshold (Ct) values were used to categorize nasopharyngeal tissues from 98 patients (Ct 
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| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| Coronavirus | COVID-19 |
| Pcr | Reverse transcriptase-PCR |
| Severe | Vitamin C |
| Therapy | |
| Vitamin |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| drug | DRUGBANK | Ascorbic acid |
| disease | IDO | assay |
| disease | MESH | COVID-19 pandemic |