NCSU professor: Diet recommendations 'not a substitute' for COVID-19 vaccines, CDC guidelines - WRAL Tech Wire

by WRAL TechWire — December 2, 2020.

RALEIGH – De-Yu Xie, professor of plant and microbial biology at NCSU who earlier this week suggested a diet of green tea, grapes and dark chocolate could help prevent COVID-19, on Wednesday stressed that his recommendations were “not a substitute” for coming vaccines or other preventive measures such as face masks.

“A person emailed our department to accuse me that I do not support vaccines and I am not responsible for the pandemic.”.

30 – was submitted to a peer-reviewed journal in August before vaccines were close to approval as they are now.

“Here, I make a strong and clear statement that I strongly support all CDC guides, vaccines, mask requirements, social distancing, and all other protocols for preventing, stopping, and treating COVID-19,” he said.

“Given that there is not an effective medicine for the treatment of COVID-19 and not a vaccine for preventing against the SARS-Cov-2 infection and transmission, these data recommend that these nutraceutical compounds and extracts of green tea, grape, and cacao can be utilized to interfere the devastation of SARS-Cov-2.”

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