Alcohol and COVID-19 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism NIAAA
According to the false information circulated recently, the ingestion of alcohol would have helped to destroy the SARS-CoV-2 virus. There is no medical basis to support this fact, on the contrary, alcohol abuse weakens the body’s protection against viral respiratory infections [78]. Other interesting examples may be the decrease of alcohol consumption in college students, after the campus closure, the main explanation being that they got back home, to live with their families, with less social events and binge drinking [46,47]. In Eastern Europe, a research project implemented in Poland has shown an increase in alcohol consumption in 146%, with… Read More