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Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, Mar 5, 2020

by Richard Cheng, M.D., Ph.D.

Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/6-elCYFhqJs

(OMNS Mar 5, 2020) Ms. N lives in Wuhan, China. She takes special care about the well-being of her entire family including her chronically-ill mother, aged 71. Ms. N has always been interested in nutrition and she recently learned about vitamin C’s antiviral effects.

I am an American physician currently residing in Shanghai. I interviewed Ms. N by telephone after I received a forwarded story that she posted on Chinese social media, WeChat. I made an effort to connect with Ms. N to verify the story and below is what she told me.

Ms. N lives with her child in the epicenter of COVID-19 pandemic. She is close to her parents and her brother and his wife. The six of them visit each other on a regular basis. Her mother has diabetes and heart disease with stents placed, in addition to several other chronic illnesses including reflux esophagitis.

Right before the Chinese New Year, around January 21st, her mother developed flu-like symptoms, with a low grade fever of 38C. Based on her knowledge. Ms. N advised all members of the family to take oral vitamin C. She herself has been taking about 20,000 mg daily in divided-up doses. Her mother reluctantly took a smaller dose, probably half or less of what her daughter’s been taking.

Her mother’s condition was stable for 9-10 days. But on January 30th, without deteriorating, her mother decided to go to Wuhan Union Hospital, Tongji College of Medicine, The Science and Technology University of Central China, a hospital prominent not only in Wuhan, but in all of China. She wanted to check out if she was infected with the Wuhan pneumonia virus. She got her presumption confirmed. At the hospital, she was diagnosed of what became known now as Covid-19 pneumonia. The second day upon admission, her fever started going up, as high as 39.6C. In about 10 days on February 10th she was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit and went on the heart-lung machine as a final attempt to save her life.

At this time Ms. N learned of the clinical trials with vitamin C, administered by infusion (IVC; intravenous vitamin C). Immediately she requested the person in charge on the ICU to use large dose IVC on her mother. The attending physician agreed but would go only to around 10,000 mg. So it happened. After 20 days in ICU, her mother improved and was discharged to a regular ward a few days ago, continuing the IVC treatment, as insisted by Ms. N.

While in hospital, Miss N, her brother and sister-in-law took turns to visit and take care of her mother. They were wearing very simple protection: gloves and masks. Also noted is that while her mother got sick at home, none of the five other family members was wearing any mask for several days. But all of them went on oral vitamin C tablets. None of them developed COVID-19 infection.

So far this is the story of Ms. N. We wish her mother a full and rapid recovery.

In the context of the vast amount of research, clinical studies, case reports and my own decades of experience on vitamin C’s use on viral infections, I summarize the story below with a few take-home messages:

1. Vitamin C tablets at high doses daily may be the reason why the family didn’t catch the infection.

2. Given her age, history of chronic disease, and the high mortality of COVID-19 on seniors, IVC may have played a large role in her mother’s improvement.

3. The news of official IVC clinical trials has definitely had a positive impact in this case, as the attending physician was emboldened to use IVC.

4. A well-functioning immune system is of the utmost importance to keep away the viral infection. And, vitamin C may support the defense against the COVID-19 virus, most importantly in chronically ill patients with a weakened immune system.

(Note from Andrew W. Saul, OMNS Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Richard Cheng is still in China now. He continues to work overtime with expert Chinese doctors and hospitals to facilitate providing intravenous vitamin C for the most seriously ill COVID-19 victims. For background information on the plausibility of treating coronavirus with high-dose vitamin C: http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v16n09.shtml. Dr. Cheng’s personal presentation of the case above is posted at YouTube: https://youtu.be/6-elCYFhqJs An additional video from China by Dr. Cheng is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC0SO9KDG7U )

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(OMNS，2020年3月5日）N女士住在中国武汉。她特别关心整个家庭的幸福，包括71岁的慢性病母亲。N女士一直对营养感兴趣，她最近了解了维生素C的抗病毒作用。

我是目前居住在上海的美国医师。在收到N女士在中国社交媒体微信上发布的转发故事后，我通过电话采访了N女士。我努力与N女士联系以核实这个故事，以下是她告诉我的内容。

N女士与她的孩子住在COVID-19大流行的震中。她与父母，兄弟和妻子关系密切。他们中的六个定期互相拜访。她的母亲患有糖尿病和心脏病，并放置了支架，此外还有其他一些慢性疾病，包括反流性食管炎。

1月21日左右春节前，她的母亲出现了类似流感的症状，并伴有38摄氏度的低烧。根据她的知识。 N女士建议全家人服用口服维生素C。她本人每天服用约20,000毫克的分剂量。她的母亲很不情愿地服用了较小的剂量，可能是女儿服用剂量的一半或更少。

她母亲的病情稳定了9-10天。但是在1月30日，她的母亲没有恶化，决定去华中科技大学同济医学院附属武汉协和医院，这家医院不仅在武汉而且在整个中国都举足轻重。她想检查自己是否感染了武汉肺炎病毒。她得到了她的推定。在医院，她被诊断出现在被称为Covid-19肺炎。入院的第二天，她的发烧开始升高，高达39.6C。在2月10日的大约10天内，她被送进了重症监护病房，并在心肺机上进行了最后一次挽救生命的尝试。

此时，N女士了解了通过输注（IVC；静脉注射维生素C）进行维生素C的临床试验。她立即​​要求ICU负责人对母亲使用大剂量IVC。主治医师表示同意，但只能服用约10,000毫克。就这样了。在ICU坚持20天后，她的母亲病情好转，几天前被送往常规病房，继续接受IVC治疗。

在医院期间，N小姐，她的兄弟和sister子轮流探视并照顾母亲。他们戴着非常简单的防护用具：手套和口罩。还应注意的是，她母亲在家里生病时，其他五个家庭成员几天都没有戴口罩。但是他们所有人都口服维生素C片剂。他们均未出现COVID-19感染。

到目前为止，这是N女士的故事。我们希望她的母亲早日康复。

在大量研究，临床研究，病例报告以及我自己数十年的维生素C在病毒感染中的应用经验的背景下，我总结了以下故事并给出了一些要点：

1.每天高剂量的维生素C片剂可能是家庭没有感染的原因。

2.考虑到她的年龄，慢性病史以及老年人中COVID-19的高死亡率，IVC可能对母亲的病情起了很大作用。

3.官方IVC临床试验的消息无疑对这种情况产生了积极的影响，因为主治医师胆敢使用IVC。

4.运转良好的免疫系统对于避免病毒感染至关重要。而且，维生素C可能有助于抵抗COVID-19病毒，尤其是在免疫系统较弱的慢性病患者中。

（OMNS总编辑安德鲁·W·索尔的注解：郑承志博士现在仍在中国。他继续与中国专业医生和医院加班，以协助为病情最严重的COVID-19提供静脉内维生素C有关使用大剂量维生素C治疗冠状病毒的可行性的背景信息：http://orthomolecularcular.org/resources/omns/v16n09.shtml。郑博士对上述病例的个人介绍发表在YouTube上：https： //youtu.be/6-elCYFhqJs郑博士在中国拍摄的其他视频，位于https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC0SO9KDG7U）